狗仗人势 — Chinese idiom
狗仗人势
gǒu zhàng rén shì
Traditional: 狗仗人勢
Meaning
- a dog threatens based on master's power ; to use one's position to bully others
Character by character
- 狗gǒudog
- 仗zhàng1to rely upon; protector; to fight; war, weaponry
- 人rénman, person; people
- 势shìpower, force; tendency, attitude
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
- 狗尾续貂 gǒu wěi xù diāo
- 狗屁不通 gǒu pì bù tōng
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