Word information
Simplified暴虎冯河
Traditional暴虎馮河
Pinyinbào hǔ píng hé
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Chinese word dictionary
暴虎冯河
bào hǔ píng hé · lit. fight tigers with one's bare hands and wade across raging rivers (idiom); fig. to display foolhardy courage
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