釜中

ふちゅう【釜中】

●釜中の魚 〔死の危険が近いことのたとえ〕 a fish swimming in water that is about to be boiled; a person who is blissfully unaware of deadly danger.

●釜中魚を生ず. 〔非常に貧しいことのたとえ〕 have had so little rice that fish swim in one's cooking pot; be desperately poor.