idiom > forget the means by which the end is attained
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May forget the fish trap
　　Explanation: Quan: fishing with a bamboo. Catch a fish, forget Quan. After a successful analogy to forget the things that had to rely on things.
　　Usage: -Linked; as predicate, object, attribute; containing derogatory
　　Source: Zhuang, "Zhuangzi foreign objects": "So who fish Tsuen, Tsuen may forget the fish; shoes are so in rabbit, rabbit may forget shoes."
　　Examples: Therefore, both the purpose of, ~, the wrist of the steep and swift, so tight. ★ Qing Liang "diplomatic failure causes and future citizens of consciousness"
No. 2
　　Quan also for Quan "." Zhuangzi foreign objects "Quan is to catch fish, get fish forgetting Quan." To get the fish forgot after Quan "likened to the purpose of the original with things forgotten.
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dé yú wàng quán
　　Quan is used fishing equipment. Get the fish, they forget Quan. Analogy to an end after the success of things forgotten
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No. 4
　　Quan is to catch fish, get fish forgetting Quan. - "Zhuangzi foreign objects"
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No. 5
　　See "fishers of forgotten Quan."
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No. 6
　　得鱼忘筌（dé yú wàng quán）
　　筌：捕鱼用的竹器。捕到了鱼，忘掉了筌。
　　比喻事情成功以后就忘了本来依靠的东西。
　　源出于《庄子·外物》：“筌者所以在鱼，得鱼而忘筌；蹄者所以在兔，得兔而忘蹄；言者所以在意，得意而忘言。”
　　意思是 ：筌是用来捕鱼的工具,但捕到鱼却忘了筌;蹄是用来捕兔的,捕到兔却忘了蹄;语言是用来表达意义的,把握了意义却忘了语言。
English Expression
  1. n.:  forget the means by which the end is attained,  forget the trap as soon as the fish is caught
  2. v.:  (literally) to get the fish but forget the fish-trap--ungrateful
Thesaurus
Xiemoshalv, kick down the ladder, Huotupenggou, cast sb.aside when be has served his purpose; kick sb. out after his services are no longer required,as the bow and arrow are stacked away when there are no more birds to shoot, cook the hound when the hares have been run down, Bridge Pumping plate, Ji River Fen Zhou, There was no retreat into, Pull a tree ladder, fall out callosity, Tsuen may forget the fish