得鱼忘筌
      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"
  • 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