a snake 's head and a rat 's eyes

a snake 's head and a rat 's eyes

Snake head and mouse eye, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh é t ó ush ǔ y ǎ n, which means to describe a person's ugly face and improper mind. From the heroine of Eastern Europe.

Idiom explanation

Snakehead: a villain who organizes illegal immigration and gets money from it.

Mouse eye: the eye of a mouse. Mouse's eyes are small, prominent and furtive, because it is often used to describe the humble appearance of a person with an evil mind.

Idiom usage

Used as attributive or adverbial; used in figurative sentences.

Examples

Zhou Bing turned back to the gate of Pingji and looked inside. Sure enough, he saw Li minkui and a snake headed man drinking. Ouyang Shan's "Three Alleys" 16

The origin of Idioms

The third chapter of "Eastern European heroines" written by Lingnan lady in feather clothes in Qing Dynasty: "when I heard the sound of the door, a short, fat and ugly man came into the room