a hungry tiger at its prey

a hungry tiger at its prey

As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is è h ǔ P ū sh í, which means like a hungry tiger pouncing on food, it means that the action is violent and rapid. From journey to the West.

The origin of Idioms

The fifty first chapter of Wu Chengen's journey to the West in the Ming Dynasty: "starving tigers will hurt people the most, while dragons and dragons can be ferocious."

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: fierce, fierce tiger down the mountain antonym: Dragon trapped in the shoal, tiger down the sun

Idiom usage

Used as an object or attribute to describe a ferocious action. As soon as the man came in front of him, he hugged him and cried, "sister-in-law, I'll die." The twelfth chapter of a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty