Nowadays, people use the phrase "waiting for rabbits by a tree stump" to describe those who just wait and dream of reaping (收获) without sowing.

Will the miracle happen again? People often use the set phrase “staying by a stump waiting for more hares to come and dash themselves against it" to refer to persons dreaming to reap without sowing.

Then the idiom was used to describe some one who talked one's ear off.