狗拿耗子 — Chinese idiom
狗拿耗子
gǒu ná hào zi
Meaning
- lit. a dog who catches mice
- to be meddlesome
Character by character
- 狗gǒudog
- 拿náto bring, to grasp, to hold, to take
- 耗hàoto consume, to use up; to squander, to waste
- 子zison, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thing
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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