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猛虎 a fierce tiger;
如虎添翼 lend support to rebel (“like adding wing to tiger”);
虎頭捉虱，虎頭抓蒼蠅 try to catch lice, flies, on tiger's head…unwise provocation;
捋 (or 拔) 虎鬚 “twist tiger’s whiskers”--twist lion's tail;
勢成騎虎，騎虎難下 like riding on tiger--afraid to go on and unable to get down;
不入虎穴，焉得虎子 the only way to catch tiger cubs is to go into tiger's den--take necessary risk;
虎毒不食兒 even a beast does not eat its young;
為虎作倀91A.02;
虎口 (a) a dangerous spot, (b) (fortune-telling) area between thumb and index finger;
虎口餘生 narrowly escape from danger;
虎步 a great warrior’s firm strides like the tiger's;
虎背熊腰 (a person) of a stocky and imposing build, boxer's sinuous posture;
虎視耽耽 cast covetous eyes on;
虎頭虎腦 (person's) appearance of strength;
踏虎尾，虎尾春冰 like treading on tiger's tail or spring ice;
虎頭蛇尾 (of affairs) a brave beginning and weak ending.
(2) Tiger as symbol of ferocity or bravery: 虎而冠 a vindictive person (tiger in a human cap);
虎將 a brave general;
虎帳 general's tent;
虎臣 brave ministers;
虎士 brave fighter;
虎狼之性voracious, violent nature;
虎威 fear-inspiring prowess.
(3) A surname.
2.虎賁 [hu3ben1], n., (AC) a brave warriors.
3.虎蹲砲 [hu3dun1pao4], n., (1) a short-barreled mortar; (2) an ancient catapult.
4.虎耳草 [hu2er3cao3], n., (bot.) the saxifrage.
5.虎符 [hu3fu2], n., a general's seal.
6.虎掌 [hu2zhang3], n., (bot.) a poisonous plant, the jack-in-the-pulpit.
7.虎帳 [hu3zhang4], n., a general's tent.
8.虎列拉 [hu3lie4la1], n., (translit.) cholera, now usu. called 霍亂.
9.虎皮豆兒 [hu3pi2dou4er0], n., (1) a kind of black spotted bean; (2) an insect resembling (1) .
10.虎穴 [hu3xie2], n., tiger's den, esp. 虎穴龍潭 a hazardous spot.
11.虎鬚 [hu3xU1], n., (1) tiger's whiskers; (2) lamp pith.
12.虎頭拍 [hu3tou0pai1], n., words to scare (person).
13.虎頭牌 [hu3tou2pai2], n., a sign of magistrate's office to “keep off.”
14.虎刺 [hu3ci4], n., (bot.) the barberry, Damnacanthus indicus.
15.虎子 [hu3zi3], n., a tiger cub.