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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
- beard the lion in his den
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入虎穴取虎子，攻击某人于其巢穴；太岁头上动土
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入虎穴取虎子，攻击某人于其巢穴；太岁头上动土
Collins English-English Dictionary
- beard the lion in his den
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n
to approach a feared or influential person, esp in order to ask a favour
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to approach a feared or influential person, esp in order to ask a favour
Examples
- to grow a beard
- 留胡子，蓄须 → grow
- a scraggly beard
- 蓬乱的胡须 → scraggly
- a stubble of beard
- 短须 → stubble
- to wear a beard
- 蓄胡须 → wear
- Your beard is too long, I don't like it, why don't you shave it off?
- 你的胡子太长了，我不喜欢，为什么不把它刮掉呢？ → beard
- I want to grow my beard, I think I would look a little more interesting.
- 我想留胡子，我想这会让我看起来有点儿意思吧。 → beard
- All my Chinese friends envy my beard simply because they don't have one.
- 我所有的中国朋友都很羡慕我的胡子，因为他们没有。
- He thought I was not brave enough to beard him, but he was wrong because I did it.
- 他以为我没有那么大勇气向他挑战，但是他错了，我就这么做了。 → beard
- the response involved much beard-stroking → beard-stroking
- a beard-stroking bore → beard-stroking
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