Fishing refers to fish in troubled waters, also refers to fish in troubled waters, and refers to taking advantage of chaos to gain personal gain. Now it also refers to laziness and failure to do a good job. It has appeared in articles such as "Erosion and Shake", "Yanshan Night Talk, the Property of an Egg". Now it is also used in the circle of painters, which means "don't do business when you should do business, and draw small paintings at will".
For example, Mao Dun's "Erosion Shake": "He also thinks that the law of farmers in South Hunan is' not without merit'. As long as it is changed, he can fish in troubled waters and choose fat to eat. " Another example is Ma Nancun's "Yanshan Night Talk: The Attribute of an Egg": "And he intends to give this picked egg to many eggs laid by neighboring hens to hatch together, with the obvious purpose of fishing in troubled waters."
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The word "fishing" comes from Oceania, the seventh continent in the world, and it is a way for students to answer questions that they can't do in exams.
In the face of difficult problems or competition questions, some people are not good enough, and they can only know the truth by asking teachers or looking at the answers. However, some people invented fishing, that is, relying on their own sense of questions for many years, excluding multiple-choice questions, using logical knowledge, and finally deriving the answer. Writing a big question can also directly find out the scope of the answer.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Fishing (word explanation)