Look down upon the tiger

Look down upon the tiger

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch ī sh ì h ǔ g ù, which means to look back like a tiger when a bird raises its head. The source is "Huainanzi · spiritual training".

The origin of Idioms

"Huainanzi · spiritual training" says: "when a real person travels, if he breathes, spits out the old and brings in the new, he bathes in apes, bears and birds stretch out, and takes care of the tiger, he is a person who cultivates his form, and does not want to slip his heart."

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate, object, attribute; used as a person