暴虎冯河 — Chinese idiom
暴虎冯河
bào hǔ píng hé
Traditional: 暴虎馮河
Meaning
- lit. fight tigers with one's bare hands and wade across raging rivers
- fig. to display foolhardy courage
Character by character
- 暴bàoviolent, brutal, tyrannical
- 虎hǔtiger; brave, fierce; surname
- 冯píngto gallop; by dint of; surname
- 河hériver, stream; the Yellow river
Idioms sharing a character
- 不畏强暴 bù wèi qiáng bào
- 暴戾恣睢 bào lì zì suī
- 暴虐无道 bào nüè wú dào
- 暴跳如雷 bào tiào rú léi
- 横征暴敛 héng zhēng bào liǎn
- 狂风暴雨 kuáng fēng bào yǔ
- 狂饮暴食 kuáng yǐn bào shí
- 脸红筋暴 liǎn hóng jīn bào
- 除暴安良 chú bào ān liáng
- 三人成虎 sān rén chéng hǔ
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