eat like wolves and tigers(láng cān hǔ yàn)

eat like wolves and tigers

Eating like a wolf, Pinyin L á NGC à NH à y à n, a Chinese idiom, means eating like a tiger. From journey to the West.

The origin of Idioms

The fifty second chapter of journey to the west by Wu Chengen of Ming Dynasty: "facing the light inside, watch carefully. I saw that the demons, big and small, were all eating

Idiom usage

Used as object, attribute and adverbial; used in figurative sentences. Example Feng Menglong, Ming Dynasty, Volume 10: the old army said: "it's too much!" When the father and son were hungry, they picked up the meal and ate it with a vengeance. Chapter 105 of the chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty: "Lianpo left Tang Jiu to eat together. He deliberately tried to show off his spirit in front of him. He ate more than ten jin of meat and ate like a wolf. After a full meal, he jumped on his horse and flew like a flying horse because of the armor given by the king of Zhao."

Chinese PinYin : láng cān hǔ yàn