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狗拿耗子 gǒu hào zi lit. a dog who catches mice / to be meddlesome (idiom)
益鸟 niǎo beneficial bird (esp. one that preys on insect pests or mice)
不管白猫黑猫,捉住老鼠就是好猫 guǎn bái māo hēi māo , zhuō zhù lǎo shǔ jiù shì hǎo māo it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black; as long as it catches mice it's a good cat (variant of a Sichuanese saying used in a speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平[Deng4 Xiao3 ping2] in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity)
家贫如洗 jiā pín extreme poverty (idiom); destitute / penniless / poor as church mice
会奖旅游 huì jiǎng yóu MICE tourism (acronym for "meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions"), aka "meetings industry" or "events industry"
狗逮老鼠 gǒu dǎi lǎo shǔ lit. a dog who catches mice (idiom) / fig. to be meddlesome
老鼠拉龟,无从下手 lǎo shǔ guī , cóng xià shǒu like mice trying to pull a turtle, nowhere to get a hand grip (idiom) / no clue where to start
老鼠拖木锨,大头在后头 lǎo shǔ tuō xiān , tóu zài hòu tou when the mice drag a shovel, the biggest thing comes second / the tip of the iceberg / the cockroach principle


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