狗急跳墙 — Chinese idiom
狗急跳墙
gǒu jí tiào qiáng
Traditional: 狗急跳牆
Meaning
- a cornered dog will jump over the wall
- to be driven to desperate action
Character by character
- 狗gǒudog
- 急jíanxious, worried; hasty, quick; pressing, urgent
- 跳tiàoto hop, to skip; to jump, to leap; to vault; to da
- 墙qiángwall
Idioms sharing a character
- 人模狗样 rén mú gǒu yàng
- 偷鸡摸狗 tōu jī mō gǒu
- 兔死狗烹 tù sǐ gǒu pēng
- 引狗入寨 yǐn gǒu rù zhài
- 打落水狗 dǎ luò shuǐ gǒu
- 指鸡骂狗 zhǐ jī mà gǒu
- 狐朋狗友 hú péng gǒu yǒu
- 狐群狗党 hú qún gǒu dǎng
- 狗仗人势 gǒu zhàng rén shì
- 狗尾续貂 gǒu wěi xù diāo
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