when a rat runs across the street everybody cries , " kill it ! " -- a person hated by everyone
Mouse across the street, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Gu Ji ē L ǎ OSH ǔ, meaning metaphor everyone hates the bad guy. It's from Gui you yuan Chen tan.
The origin of Idioms
Xu Xuemo of the Ming Dynasty wrote in his book GUI you yuan Chen Tan: "a miser can become rich, but if he has something to do, he will become a street mouse; if he has something to do, he will break his family, but if he has something to do, he will become a hundred legged insect."
Idiom usage
As an object, attribute, or villain. In front of the village and in the back of the village, everyone resents others. Therefore, he is nicknamed as a street mouse. An anecdotal history of Zen by Fang Ruhao in Ming Dynasty
Chinese PinYin : guò jiē lǎo shǔ
when a rat runs across the street everybody cries , " kill it ! " -- a person hated by everyone