穷鼠啮狸 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 窮鼠嚙狸 qióngshǔnièlí ㄑㄩㄥˊ ㄕㄨˇ ㄋㄧㄝˋ ㄌㄧˊ a desperate rat will bite the fox (idiom) the smallest worm will turn being trodden on Character by character 穷(qióng)poor 鼠(shǔ)rat 啮(niè)gnaw 狸(lí)used in the names of small mammals A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0