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| | White Tiger (the seven mansions of the west sky) / (slang) hairless female genitalia | |
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| | (literary) tiger stripes; (by extension) ornate and brightly colored; (by synecdoche) young tiger; (fig.) strong; stalwart / (old) classifier for troops | |
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| | Year of the Tiger (e.g. 2010) | |
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| | fierce tiger | |
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| | Four Asian Tigers / East Asian Tigers / Four Little Dragons (East Asian economic powers: Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong) | |
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| | lit. to fix one's eyes on sth like a tiger watching its prey (idiom) / fig. to eye covetously | |
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| | tiger's den / dangerous place / the web between the thumb and forefinger of a hand | |
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| | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, movie by Ang Lee 李安 | |
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| | lit. hidden dragon, crouching tiger (idiom) / fig. talented individuals in hiding / concealed talent | |
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| | if you ride a tiger, it's hard to get off (idiom); fig. impossible to stop halfway | |
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| | lit. lively dragon and animated tiger (idiom) / fig. vigorous and lively | |
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| | lit. newborn calves do not fear tigers (idiom) / fig. the young are fearless | |
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| | paper tiger | |
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| | lit. dragon's pool and tiger's den (idiom) / fig. dangerous place; hostile territory | |
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| | lit. tiger's head, snake's tail (idiom); fig. a strong start but weak finish | |
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| | lit. sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight (idiom) / fig. watch in safety whilst others fight then reap the rewards when both sides are exhausted | |
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| | lit. to negotiate with a tiger for its pelt (idiom); fig. to ask sb to act contrary to their own interests | |
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| | to lure the tiger from its domain in the mountains (idiom) / to lure an enemy away from his territory | |
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| | lit. two tigers fighting (idiom) / fig. fierce contest between evenly matched adversaries | |
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| | (idiom) to act as accomplice to the tiger; to help a villain do evil | |
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| | How do you catch the tiger cub without entering the tiger's lair? (idiom); Nothing ventured, nothing gained. | |
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| | being close to the sovereign can be as perilous as lying with a tiger (idiom) | |
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| | tiger | |
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| | saber-toothed tiger | |
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| | crouching tiger / fig. major figure in hiding / concealed talent | |
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| | lit. drawing a tiger using a cat as a model (idiom); fig. to follow a model and get things more or less right but without capturing the spirit of the subject / uninspired imitation | |
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| | Eldrick "Tiger" Woods (1975-), American golfer | |
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| | lit. to turn pale at the mention of a tiger (idiom) / fig. to be terrified at the thought (of it) | |
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| | tiger bone (used in TCM) | |
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| | lit. dragon soaring and tiger leaping (idiom) / fig. prosperous and bustling; vigorous and active | |
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| | four divisions (of the twenty-eight constellations 二十八宿 of the sky into groups of seven mansions), namely: Azure Dragon 青龍｜青龙, White Tiger 白虎, Vermilion Bird 朱雀, Black Tortoise 玄武 | |
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| | lit. fight tigers with one's bare hands and wade across raging rivers (idiom) / fig. to display foolhardy courage | |
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| | a tiger, though cruel, will not devour its cubs (idiom) / even wild beasts look after their young | |
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| | like a hungry tiger pouncing on its prey | |
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| | Claire Lee Chennault (1890-1958), American military aviator and brigadier general, commander of the Flying Tigers 飛虎隊｜飞虎队, a volunteer group that assisted China in resisting Japanese forces during World War II | |
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| | Tiger Balm, an ointment applied topically to treat all manner of aches and pains / (fig.) (coll.) jack of all trades | |
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| | tiger bench (torture method in which the victim sits with legs extended horizontally along a bench, upper legs held down with straps while bricks are inserted under the feet, forcing the knee joint to bend in reverse) | |
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| | tiger cub / brave young man | |
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| | to vanquish dragons and tigers (idiom) | |
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| | lit. a lamb in a tiger's den (idiom) / fig. to tread dangerous ground | |
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| | lit. the mountain can't have two tigers (idiom) / fig. this town ain't big enough for the two of us / (of two rivals) to be fiercely competitive | |
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| | lit. to let the tiger return to the mountain; fig. to store up future calamities | |
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| | Tegel (name) / Tiger (name) | |
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| | a tiger's roar / to scare / to intimidate / (coll.) to fool / to bluff | |
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| | lit. where tigers crouch and dragons coil (idiom); fig. forbidding terrain | |
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| | Rear a tiger and court disaster. (idiom); fig. if you're too lenient with sb, he will damage you later / to cherish a snake in one's bosom | |
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| | lit. to stroke the tiger's whiskers / to do sth very daring | |
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| | if you ride a tiger, it's hard to get off (idiom); fig. impossible to stop halfway | |
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| | lit. to escape from the tiger's mouth (idiom) / fig. to narrowly escape death | |
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| | (bound form) ghost of sb devoured by a tiger who helps the tiger devour others | |
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| | lit. where tigers crouch and dragons coil (idiom); fig. forbidding terrain | |
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| | White Tiger Hall, a Han dynasty palace hall in which the famous Virtuous Discussions Held in White Tiger Hall 白虎通德論｜白虎通德论 were held under the aegis of Han Emperor Zhang 漢章帝｜汉章帝 | |
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| | Indian coral tree / sunshine tree / tiger's claw / Erythrina variegata (botany) | |
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| | lit. like wolves and tigers / ruthless | |
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| | to exhale / to call / scream of tiger | |
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| | lit. to wave a banner as if it were a tiger skin (idiom) / fig. to borrow sb's prestige / to take the name of a great cause as a shield | |
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| | lit. the heart of a sheep in the skin of a tiger (idiom) / fig. impressive in appearance but lacking in substance / braggart | |
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| | roar of a tiger | |
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| | waist of a bear and back of a tiger / tough and stocky build | |
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| | tiger-head plaque (made of wood and mounted on the front of a yamen 衙門｜衙门 during the Qing dynasty as a symbol of authority) | |
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| | to try to draw a tiger but end up with a likeness of a dog (idiom) / to try to do sth overambitious and end up botching it | |
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| | the scream or roar of a tiger / to intimidate / to scare | |
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| | lit. the fox exploits the tiger's might (idiom); fig. to use powerful connections to intimidate people | |
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| | back of a tiger and waist of a bear / tough and stocky build | |
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| | lit. like a tiger that has grown wings / with redoubled power (idiom) | |
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| | lit. jackals, wolves, tigers and panthers (idiom) / fig. nasty, cruel people | |
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| | tiger tally (a two-piece object made in the shape of a tiger, used in ancient China as proof of authority. One half of a tally could be issued to a military officer and this would be matched with the other half when verification was required.) | |
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| | (literary) mythical creature resembling a tiger whose image was painted on prison doors / (literary) prison | |
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| | three men talking makes a tiger (idiom); repeated rumor becomes a fact | |
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| | lit. a new-born calf has no fear of the tiger (idiom) / fig. the fearlessness of youth | |
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| | (archaic) animal resembling a tiger | |
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| | stripes of a tiger / "tiger" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 141) | |
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| | percussion instrument shaped as a hollow wooden tiger, with serrated strip across the back, across which one runs a drumstick | |
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| | (literary) (of a tiger) to growl; to roar | |
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| | Rear a tiger and court disaster. (idiom); fig. if you're too lenient with sb, he will damage you later / to cherish a snake in one's bosom | |
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| | Ang Li (1954-), Taiwanese-American film director (films include Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 臥虎藏龍｜卧虎藏龙 and Brokeback Mountain 斷背山｜断背山) | |
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| | Wu Song, a heroic outlaw of Liangshan Marsh in the classic novel Water Margin 水滸傳｜水浒传, whose exploits include killing a tiger with his bare hands | |
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| | to subdue a tiger / fig. to prevail over sinister forces | |
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| | Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) | |
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| | to try to draw a tiger but end up with a likeness of a dog (idiom) / to try to do sth overambitious and end up botching it | |
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| | (slang) (Tw) coward; paper tiger; a nobody (from Taiwanese 卒仔, Tai-lo pr. [tsut-á]) | |
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| | leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) / sculpted stone tiger installed at the tomb of revered figures in ancient times to ward off evil spirits | |
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| | tiger salad, a northeast China dish usually consisting of hot pepper, cucumber, cilantro and leek | |
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| | Tiger Leaping Gorge on the Jinsha River 金沙江 in Yunnan | |
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| | Tiger Brand (beer) | |
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| | lit. whoever hung the bell on the tiger's neck must untie it (idiom) / fig. whoever started the trouble should end it | |
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| | Year 3, year of the Tiger (e.g. 2010) | |
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| | South China Tiger | |
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| | Eldrick "Tiger" Woods (1975-), American golfer | |
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| | (bird species of China) tiger shrike (Lanius tigrinus) | |
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| | birth year as designated by animal symbols (mouse, ox, tiger etc) | |
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| | (archaic) (dialect) tiger | |
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| | ghost of sb devoured by a tiger who helps the tiger devour others | |
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| | lit. if two tigers fight, one will get injured (idiom) / fig. if you start a war, someone is bound to get hurt | |
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| | lit. to fear the wolf in front and the tiger behind (idiom) / fig. to be full of needless fears / reds under the beds | |
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| | to beat a tiger from the front door, only to have a wolf come in at the back (idiom); fig. facing one problem after another | |
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| | to beat a tiger from the front door, only to have a wolf come in at the back (idiom); fig. facing one problem after another | |
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