老鼠拉龟

老鼠拉龜
lǎoshǔlāguī
  1. (originally Cantonese, figurative) to have no clue about how to handle a problem
  2. to have no clue about how to handle a problem

Wiktionary

Entry Composition

1 老鼠 lǎoshǔ
  1. (archaic dialectal, Guilin Mandarin) bat (animal)
  2. (countable) mouse and rat in general (Classifier: 隻／只 m c h)
  3. bat (animal)
  4. cunning, deceitful person
  5. mouse and rat in general (Classifier: 隻／只 m c h)

classifier: 隻
=2 拉 lā
  1. to pull
  2. to play (a bowed instrument)
  3. to drag
  4. to draw
  5. to chat
  6. (coll.) to empty one's bowels
=2 拉 lá to make a cut in (sth); to slit; to gash; to slash
=2 拉 là
  1. used in 拉拉蛄 làlàgǔ
  2. variant of 落 là
=3 龟 guī
  1. tortoise; turtle
  2. (coll.) cuckold
=3 龟 jūn variant of 皲 jūn
=3 龟 qiū used in 龟兹 Qiūcí

Containing this entry

老鼠拉龟，无从下手 lǎoshǔlāguī,wúcóngxiàshǒu
  1. like mice trying to pull a turtle, nowhere to get a hand grip (idiom)
  2. no clue where to start