虎视眈眈 — Chinese idiom
虎视眈眈
hǔ shì dān dān
Traditional: 虎視眈眈
Meaning
- (lit.) to fix one's eyes on sth like a tiger watching its prey
- (fig.) to eye covetously
Character by character
- 虎hǔtiger; brave, fierce; surname
- 视shìto look at, to inspect, to observe, to regard
- 眈dānto stare at, to gaze intently; to delay, to hinder
- 眈dānto stare at, to gaze intently; to delay, to hinder
Idioms sharing a character
- 三人成虎 sān rén chéng hǔ
- 两虎相争 liǎng hǔ xiāng zhēng
- 势成骑虎 shì chéng qí hǔ
- 如虎添翼 rú hǔ tiān yì
- 打马虎眼 dǎ mǎ hu yǎn
- 暴虎冯河 bào hǔ píng hé
- 为虎作伥 wèi hǔ zuò chāng
- 照猫画虎 zhào māo huà hǔ
- 狐假虎威 hú jiǎ hǔ wēi
- 狼吞虎咽 láng tūn hǔ yàn
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