Cultural Highlights of Tiger Idioms

People often use the phrase "being powerful" to describe the prosperity of things or undertakings. This is the case with China's idioms about tigers. Most of them give people a warm feeling.

▲ Look.

This idiom comes from the Book of Changes? Me: I'm eyeing it. I want to chase it one by one. It is usually used in a derogatory sense to describe staring fiercely like a tiger.

▲ Feng (Ping) River

Beat the tiger with bare hands and cross the river on foot. It is a metaphor for foolhardy and taking unnecessary risks. This idiom comes from The Book of Songs? Xiaoya? Small Japan ""Don't dare to storm the tiger, don't dare to congratulate. "The Analects of Confucius again? Say, "I won't agree with those who die without regret."

▲ Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

This idiom comes from the Book of the Later Han Dynasty? Biography of Ban Chao. Unless you go deep into the lion's den, you will get nothing. ▲ Cast a tiger.

This idiom comes from The Book of Songs? Xiaoya? Xiang Bo: "Take another person and jump at the tiger." It means to feed the bad guys to the tigers. This is a language that expresses deep hatred and is rarely used in daily life.

Some idioms can be expressed in different ways. Such as "adding wings to a tiger", "adding wings to a tiger" and "adding wings to a tiger"; "Tiger's mouth pulls teeth" and "tiger's mouth pulls beard" are synonymous idioms. However, if we say "Fu Yi is a tiger", it has different meanings from "Fu Yi is a tiger". The former emphasizes that the increase of strength is assisted by external forces.

▲ Dragon and Tiger

This idiom comes from Buddhist scriptures, which describes that it is powerful and can defeat all evil forces.

▲ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Also known as "Tiger Treading Dragon Plate", it was originally used to describe the terrain of Jinling, and later it was also used to describe all places with dangerous terrain.

▲ Tiger's back and bear's waist

This idiom describes a person's strong body, which comes from "Yuan Qu Xuan Wai Bian?" The second fold of "Flying Knife to Arrow": "It's a tiger's back and a bear's waist, with two arms, just like a railing."

In addition, such as "release the tiger to the mountain", "gobble up", "anticlimactic", "anticlimactic", "draw a tiger as a dog", "reject the tiger at the front door, enter the wolf at the back door", "tiger skin seeks the tiger" and "strong and powerful",