降龙伏虎 — Chinese idiom
降龙伏虎
xiáng lóng fú hǔ
Traditional: 降龍伏虎
Meaning
- to vanquish dragons and tigers
Character by character
- 降xiángto descend, to fall; to drop, to lower
- 龙lóngdragon; symbol of the emperor
- 伏fúto crouch, to crawl, to lie hidden, to conceal
- 虎hǔtiger; brave, fierce; surname
Idioms sharing a character
- 喜从天降 xǐ cóng tiān jiàng
- 从天而降 cóng tiān ér jiàng
- 招降纳叛 zhāo xiáng nà pàn
- 明升暗降 míng shēng àn jiàng
- 纡尊降贵 yū zūn jiàng guì
- 人中龙凤 rén zhōng lóng fèng
- 伏龙凤雏 fú lóng fèng chú
- 来龙去脉 lái lóng qù mài
- 大排长龙 dà pái cháng lóng
- 扳龙附凤 bān lóng fù fèng
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