lit. the fish swam away into the depths, the goose vanished in the distance (idiom) / fig. to have had no news (of sb who went away) / to have lost contact
(idiom) Originally, this referred to the ruler of Lu who no longer went in person to the ancestral temple for the new-moon ceremony and merely sacrificed a sheep.
(idiom) To take up one’s former occupation or trade again. The expression alludes to Feng Fu, who went back to wrestling a tiger after becoming a respectable man.
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