Word Meaning 虎の威を借る狐
とらのいをかるきつね
tora no i o karukitsune
虎の威を借る狐 is read as とらのいをかるきつね (tora no i o karukitsune) and means person who swaggers about under borrowed authority.
Meaning
English
- person who swaggers about under borrowed authority
- small man acting arrogantly through borrowed authority
- a fox that borrows the authority of a tiger
Reading
Kana
とらのいをかるきつね
Romaji
tora no i o karukitsune
Stroke Sequence
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Related Vocabulary
Max. 12虎ノ門事件
とらのもんじけん
Toranomon Incident (assassination attempt on Prince Regent Hirohito; December 27, 1923)