ask a tiger for its skin [hide];a doomed petition;do an impossibility;request sb. to act against his own interests ;
To ask him for help was like asking a tiger for its skin.
向他求助无异于与虎谋皮.
The cyber citizens generally believed that asking the ordinary masses to negotiate housing price with the developers would be nothing short of asking a tiger for its skin.
网民普遍认为,让老百姓与开发商商量房价,无异于“与虎谋皮”。
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