强龙不压地头蛇 qiánglóngbùyādìtóushé powerful outsiders are no match for local forces Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 强龙不压地头蛇 強龍不壓地頭蛇 qiánglóngbùyādìtóushé powerful outsiders are no match for local forces Literally "even a powerful dragon cannot repress a snake in its own haunts"; used to mean that a powerful person from the outside cannot compete with local forces who have the advantage of being on their own home turf Frequency Written text 0.041 per million Cross-References Variant of 强龙难敌地头蛇 qiánglóngnándídìtóushé Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
强龙不压地头蛇 強龍不壓地頭蛇 qiánglóngbùyādìtóushé powerful outsiders are no match for local forces Literally "even a powerful dragon cannot repress a snake in its own haunts"; used to mean that a powerful person from the outside cannot compete with local forces who have the advantage of being on their own home turf Frequency Written text 0.041 per million Cross-References Variant of 强龙难敌地头蛇 qiánglóngnándídìtóushé Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
