| 老鼠过街，人人喊打 |
lǎo shǔ guò jiē , rén rén hǎn dǎ |
lit. when a rat crosses the street, people chase it down (idiom) / fig. everyone detests a lowlife |
| 老 |
lǎo |
prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough |
| 老鼠 |
lǎo shǔ |
rat; mouse (CL:只) |
| 鼠 |
shǔ |
(bound form) rat; mouse |
| 过 |
Guō |
surname Guo |
| 过 |
guò |
to cross / to go over / to pass (time) / to celebrate (a holiday) / to live / to get along / excessively / too- |
| 过 |
guo |
(experienced action marker) |
| 街 |
jiē |
street / CL:条 |
| 人 |
rén |
person; people / CL:个,位 |
| 人人 |
rén rén |
everyone / every person |
| 人 |
rén |
person; people / CL:个,位 |
| 喊 |
hǎn |
to yell / to shout / to call out for (a person) |
| 打 |
dá |
(loanword) dozen / Taiwan pr. [da3] |
| 打 |
dǎ |
a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打伞 "to hold an umbrella", 打电话 "to make a phone call", 打针 "to get an injection", 打手套 "to knit gloves", 打气 "to inflate") / to hit; to strike / to fight / (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以后 "since then") |