土豪劣绅 — Chinese idiom
土豪劣绅
tǔ háo liè shēn
Traditional: 土豪劣紳
Meaning
- local bosses, shady gentry ; dominant local mafia
Character by character
- 土tǔsoil, earth; items made of earth
- 豪háobrave, heroic, chivalrous
- 劣lièlow-quality, inferior, bad
- 绅shēngirdle, tie; gentry; to bend
Idioms sharing a character
- 入土为安 rù tǔ wéi ān
- 卷土重来 juǎn tǔ chóng lái
- 土木形骸 tǔ mù xíng hái
- 土洋结合 tǔ yáng jié hé
- 土牛木马 tǔ niú mù mǎ
- 土生土长 tǔ shēng tǔ zhǎng
- 土阶茅屋 tǔ jiē máo wū
- 土阶茅茨 tǔ jiē máo cí
- 守土有责 shǒu tǔ yǒu zé
- 寸土寸金 cùn tǔ cùn jīn
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