虎尾春冰 — Chinese idiom
虎尾春冰
hǔ wěi chūn bīng
Meaning
- lit. like stepping on a tiger's tail or spring ice
- fig. extremely dangerous situation
Character by character
- 虎hǔtiger; brave, fierce; surname
- 尾wěitail; extremity, end; back, rear
- 春chūnspringtime; joyful, lustful, wanton
- 冰bīngice; ice-cold
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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