a wicked and fierce person

a wicked and fierce person

Yingshihubu is a Chinese idiom, pronounced y ī ngsh ì h ǔ B ù, which means to look like an eagle and walk like a tiger. He was described as insidious and vicious.

explain

Look like an eagle and walk like a tiger. He was described as insidious and vicious.

source

Zhao Ye of the Han Dynasty wrote in the biography of Helu in the spring and Autumn period of Wu and Yue: "I can see that he is a man who looks at the tiger with a hawk's eye. He is a man who specializes in killing. He is not amiable."

Analysis of Idioms

Synonyms: yingshilanggu degree of common use: General emotional color: commendatory words grammatical usage: as attribute and object; refers to human behavior idiom structure: combined generation time: ancient times