"There is a wolf in front of you and a tiger behind you" means: the wolf was driven away at the front door, but the tiger came at the back. It is a metaphor for bad people coming one after another (often used as a derogatory term). From: Source: Qing Dynasty, Sensheng "Guillotine - Party Controversy": "Had I known that there was a wolf in front and a tiger at the back, it would have been difficult to dispel the same indignation."
A phrase similar to "There is a wolf in front and a tiger behind" is "Fear the wolf in front and the tiger behind".
"Fear of wolves in front, fear of tigers behind" means that one is too timid and afraid of things. From Feng Weimin's song "Qingjiangquan - style of enlightenment" in Ming Dynasty: "Knowing that the fireworks road is bitter, there is a way to go but no way to come. The vicious tiger crawls over my heart, and the hungry wolf digs out my belly. I am now afraid of the wolf in front and the tiger behind."
Explanation: Knowing that the fireworks flying up to the sky will be gone in the blink of an eye, there is a way to go but no way to come back. Tigers are vicious and wolves are hungry. I am now timid and fearful, with too many worries back and forth.
Expanded:
Meaning: to be afraid of the front as well as the back. It describes a timid and skeptical person.
Example sentence: Contemporary Yin Qian, "The Complete Collection of Miscellaneous Writings of Yin Qian": "It has turned out to be a kind of fearful taboo in today's critical circles, but they do not know that, in the long run, literature will be heading towards a terrible situation, and that literature is not only unhelpful to the spiritual life of mankind, but is instead harmful to it."
Antonym: audacious.
Meaning: to do something bad or boldly messy without fear.
Example sentence: qing-zeng park "sin sea flower" 10th: "this kind of person to in my country, is long ago the clear punishment, where to allow them to be so bold and presumptuous."
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