venomous serpents and wild beasts
Poisonous snakes and beasts, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is d ú sh é m ě ngsh ò u, which means animals threatening human life, also refers to the greedy. From civil rights.
The origin of Idioms
Sun Yat Sen's "civil rights doctrine" first said: "in the era of human struggle with animals, because we do not know when there will be poisonous snakes and beasts, so human beings always do not know life and death."
Idiom usage
Combined; as object and attribute; with derogatory meaning. example the place was originally sparsely populated with poisonous snakes and beasts. Qu Qiubai's literary works
venomous serpents and wild beasts
a bell with a wooden clapper -- used figuratively for education - jīn kǒu mù shé
a magnificent house become a mound of earth-vicissitude - huá wū qiū xū