{"path":"/entry/81007","title":"穷鼠啮狸 / 窮鼠嚙狸 (qióng shǔ niè lí) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"穷鼠啮狸 / 窮鼠嚙狸 (qióng shǔ niè lí): a desperate rat will bite the fox (idiom) · the smallest worm will turn being trodden on. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":81007,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["穷鼠啮狸"],"TRADITIONAL":["窮鼠嚙狸"]}},"phonetic":"qióng shǔ niè lí","phoneticKey":"qiong2 shu3 nie4 li2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"a desperate rat will bite the fox ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"the smallest worm will turn being trodden on","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["NOUN"],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From the Discourses on Salt and Iron (盐铁论·诏圣)","traditional":"From the Discourses on Salt and Iron (鹽鐵論·詔聖)"}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"死不再生，穷鼠啮狸，匹夫奔万乘，舍人折弓，陈胜、吴广是也。","traditional":"死不再生，窮鼠嚙狸，匹夫奔萬乘，舍人折弓，陳勝、吳廣是也。"},"phonetic":"Sǐ bù zàishēng, qióng shǔ niè lí, pǐfū bēn wànchéng, shèrén zhé gōng, Chén Shèng, Wú Guǎng shì yě.","english":"People cannot revive if they die, so a cornered rat will bite a cat; An ordinary man would go to assault the Emperor; A servant of a noble would destroy his bow. This is precisely the case of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang.","ref":"Huan Kuan, Discourses on Salt and Iron, c. 1ˢᵗ century BCE"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}