冇牙老虎

mou5 ngaa4 lou5 fu2

toothless tiger, something · someone that seems to be powerful and scary yet cannot bite · strike, the government practicing a law

Meanings

  1. toothless tiger, something
  2. someone that seems to be powerful and scary yet cannot bite
  3. strike, the government practicing a law
  4. policy without enough
  5. effective enforcement

CC-Canto and the CC-CEDICT Cantonese readings are copyright (c) 2015-17 Pleco Software Incorporated, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. CC-CEDICT is copyright its maintainers, with portions from the original CEDICT database copyright (c) 1997, 1998 Paul Andrew Denisowski, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Filtered, regrouped by canonical lemma, and reformatted as an immutable web projection. Source gloss text is not rewritten.

View Source CC BY-SA 3.0