抱头鼠窜 — Chinese idiom
抱头鼠窜
bào tóu shǔ cuàn
Traditional: 抱頭鼠竄
Meaning
- to cover one's head and sneak away like a rat ; to flee ignominiously
Character by character
- 抱bàoto embrace, to hold in one's arms; to enfold
- 头tóuhead; chief, boss; first, top
- 鼠shǔrat, mouse
- 窜cuànto run away; to expel; to revise, to edit
Idioms sharing a character
- 左拥右抱 zuǒ yōng yòu bào
- 打抱不平 dǎ bào bù píng
- 抱恨终天 bào hèn zhōng tiān
- 抱恨黄泉 bào hèn huáng quán
- 抱残守缺 bào cán shǒu quē
- 抱薪救火 bào xīn jiù huǒ
- 三天两头 sān tiān liǎng tóu
- 三头六臂 sān tóu liù bì
- 事到临头 shì dào lín tóu
- 傻头傻脑 shǎ tóu shǎ nǎo
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