a wicked and fierce person

a wicked and fierce person

Yingshilangbu, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ī ngsh ì L á NGB ù, which means to look like an eagle and walk like a wolf. He was described as insidious and vicious. It comes from the biography of Goujian attacking Wu in the spring and Autumn period of Wu and Yue.

Analysis of Idioms

The eagle looks at the tiger

Idiom usage

Sima Yi's behavior is like an eagle's eye on a wolf's footstep. He can't give military power and will be a disaster to the country for a long time. The ninety first chapter of romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong in Ming Dynasty

The origin of Idioms

Zhao Ye of Han Dynasty wrote in the spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue, the biography of Goujian attacking Wu: "the king of Yue is a man with a giraffed beak and a hawk's eye on a wolf's step. He can share weal and woe, but not happiness. He can walk with danger, not peace."