created sense approved 龙离沧海遭虾戏/龍離滄海遭蝦戲 · lónglícānghǎizāoxiāxì · dragon out of water is mocked by shrimp — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
龙离沧海遭虾戏 / 龍離滄海遭蝦戲
lónglícānghǎizāoxiāxì
dragon out of water is mocked by shrimp
a person of great power or talent who has lost their position and is being bullied by those far beneath them; usually paired with the image of a tiger on the plains being bullied by dogs
龙 (literal) → 龙/龍 · lóng · dragon 离 (literal) → 离/離 · lí · to leave 沧海 (literal) → 沧海/滄海 · cānghǎi · the sea 遭 (literal) → 遭 · zāo · to suffer 虾 (literal) → 虾/蝦 · xiā · shrimp 戏 (literal) → 戏/戲 · xì · to mock
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition