土狗
tǔ gǒu
Pinyin
Definition
土狗
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- native dog
- mole cricket (colloquial word for agricultural pest Gryllotalpa 螻蛄|蝼蛄[lóu gū])
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
人模狗样
- 1 (idiom) to pose
- 2 to put on airs
偷鸡摸狗
- 1 to imitate the dog and steal chicken (idiom)
- 2 to pilfer
- 3 to dally with women
- 4 to have affairs
兔死狗烹
- 1 lit. to boil the hound once it caught the rabbit (idiom)
- 2 fig. to get rid of sb once he has served his purpose
入土为安
- 1 buried and at rest (idiom); Resquiescat in pacem (RIP)
兵来将挡,水来土掩
- 1 counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action
- 2 to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation