老鼠過街，人人喊打

lou5 syu2 gwo3 gaai1 ，jan4 jan4 haam3 daa2

lit. when a rat crosses the street, people chase it down (idiom) · fig. everyone detests a lowlife

2 Written Forms

Meanings

  1. lit. when a rat crosses the street, people chase it down (idiom)
  2. fig. everyone detests a lowlife

Written Forms

老鼠過街，人人喊打Traditional · Main Form
老鼠过街，人人喊打Alternate Form

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