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Like a fish in water
Liu Bei  searches talent in every way for realize the great aspiration of uniting the world,specially visits Zhuge Liang who lives in seclusion, asks him to become an official. He went twice and not  be able to see, the third time he went, then met. Liu Bei made the explanation patiently, he compared himself to the fish, compared Kong Ming to the water, explained repeatedly, Kong Ming's talent and brave, to capture the world great undertaking.
This idiom is used to describe  the human who was perfectly suited to each other or  environment suits self very much.

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waterdrop makes  perforation in stone

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a thousand kinds of change

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talent with seven steps

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men's talking is terrible

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rock appears when river is dry
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