人怕出名猪怕壮 (人怕出名豬怕壯)
rén pà chū míng zhū pà zhuàng
Pinyin
Definition
人怕出名猪怕壮 (人怕出名豬怕壯)
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- lit. people fear getting famous like pigs fear fattening up (for the slaughter)
- fig. fame has its price
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 life (one's time on earth)
- 1 to go out
- 2 to come out
- 3 to occur
- 4 to produce
- 5 to go beyond
- 6 to rise
- 7 to put forth
- 8 to happen
- 9 (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result)
- 10 classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
- 1 to come out
- 2 to appear
- 3 to arise
- 1 other people
- 2 others
- 3 other person
Idioms (20)
一人得道,鸡犬升天
- 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
- 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
- 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
- 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一年被蛇咬十年怕井绳
- 1 bitten by a snake in one year, fears the well rope for ten years (idiom); once bitten twice shy
一朝被蛇咬,十年怕井绳
- 1 once bitten by a snake, ten years in fear of a well rope
- 2 once bitten, twice shy (idiom)
一言既出,驷马难追
- 1 lit. once said, a team of horses cannot unsay it (idiom); a promise must be kept
一鸣惊人
- 1 to amaze the world with a single brilliant feat (idiom); an overnight celebrity