shòu sǐ de luò tuo bǐ mǎ dà
Traditional: 瘦死的駱駝比馬大
瘦死的骆驼比马大 (shòu sǐ de luò tuo bǐ mǎ dà) is a Chinese word meaning “lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom); fig. even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people; a cultured person may come down in the world, but he is still superior to the common people”.
Meanings
- 1lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom)
- 2fig. even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people
- 3a cultured person may come down in the world, but he is still superior to the common people