fear the enemy as if he were a tiger

fear the enemy as if he were a tiger

Fear of the enemy like a tiger, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is w è ID í R ú h ǔ, which means fear of the enemy is like fear of the tiger. It comes from the biography of Zhuge Liang in the annals of the Three Kingdoms.

Idiom usage

The leaders are afraid of the enemy and set up defenses everywhere.

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: fear like a tiger

The origin of Idioms

Pei Songzhi's annotation in the annals of the Three Kingdoms, the annals of Shu and the biography of Zhuge Liang quoted Volume 35 of the spring and Autumn Annals of the Han, Jin, and Jin Dynasties as follows: "the Duke is afraid of Shu like a tiger, and the whole world laughs."

Idiom explanation

Fear of the enemy is like fear of the tiger.