涸辙之鲋

Explanation: Dry: Dry; rut: the wheels run over the traces; crucian carp: carp. Water, the fish did ditch the car. Metaphor in urgent need of rescue troubled people. 　　Usage: Partial official; as subject, object; metaphor of people in trouble 　　Source: Song Zhuang Zhou Warring States "Zhuangzi foreign objects": "last week, a middle and called those. Looking week, the track, the Carp game. Zhou asked I said: 'Carp! Son of what those evil? '" 　　Examples: But hungry people can not wait for the arrival of an ideal world, at least to stay a little among themselves, as ~, anxious to seek liter bucket of water. (Lu Xun, "Nora left how grave") Thesaurus:  Cry piteously for food, Dry dry mistake, No food no clothes, Dried carp, Dry scales, Dry mistake carp, Frog fish, dry