bào tóu shǔ cuàn

Traditional: 抱頭鼠竄

抱头鼠窜 (bào tóu shǔ cuàn) is a Chinese word meaning “to cover one's head and sneak away like a rat (idiom); to flee ignominiously”.

Meanings

  1. 1to cover one's head and sneak away like a rat (idiom); to flee ignominiously

Characters in 抱头鼠窜

抱bào · to hold头tóu · head鼠shǔ · (bound form) rat; mouse窜cuàn · to flee

Related words

抱歉to be sorry头head头suffix for nouns头发hair (on the head)抱to hold头儿leader回头to turn round; to turn one's head石头stone老鼠rat; mouse (CL:隻|只[zhi1])镜头camera lens抱怨to complain骨头bone

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