外甥打灯笼，照舅

外甥打灯笼，照舅:

Literally means:

the nephew holds a to give light to his uncle.

Actually means:

In Chinese 照舅 (Zhàojiù), giving light to his uncle, is of the same pronunciation a 照旧 (Zhàojiù), which means remaining unchanged.

With this homophone, this phrase means everything remains the same as before and nothing has changed.

这里利用“照舅”与“照旧”谐音来表示人或事物的情况跟以前一样，没有变化。