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前门打虎,后门打狼
qián mén dǎ hǔ , hòu mén dǎ láng
What 前门打虎,后门打狼 means
- 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
The characters in 前门打虎,后门打狼
- 前qiánfront; forward; ahead
- 门méngate; door; doorway; gateway; opening; valve; switch…
- 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
- 虎hǔtiger
- 后hòuempress; queen; (archaic) monarch
- 门méngate; door; doorway; gateway; opening; valve; switch…
- 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
- 狼lángwolf
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