骑虎难下 — Chinese idiom
骑虎难下
qí hǔ nán xià
Traditional: 騎虎難下
Meaning
- if you ride a tiger, it's hard to get off ; fig. impossible to stop halfway
Character by character
- 骑qíto ride, to mount; cavalry
- 虎hǔtiger; brave, fierce; surname
- 难nánhard, difficult, arduous; unable
- 下xiàbelow, underneath; inferior; to bring down; next
Idioms sharing a character
- 一骑绝尘 yī qí jué chén
- 势成骑虎 shì chéng qí hǔ
- 骑马找马 qí mǎ zhǎo mǎ
- 骑驴找马 qí lǘ zhǎo mǎ
- 骑驴找驴 qí lǘ zhǎo lǘ
- 三人成虎 sān rén chéng hǔ
- 两虎相争 liǎng hǔ xiāng zhēng
- 如虎添翼 rú hǔ tiān yì
- 打马虎眼 dǎ mǎ hu yǎn
- 暴虎冯河 bào hǔ píng hé
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