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Trad. 婚驢
- (derog.) (slang) married woman (term used by some feminists to imply that by marrying, women make themselves subservient to the patriarchal order)
Trad. 小電驢
- (coll.) electric scooter; electric moped
- (dialect) scooter
Trad. 黔驢技窮
- to exhaust one's limited abilities (idiom)
Trad. 非驢非馬
- neither fish nor fowl
- resembling nothing on earth
Trad. 騎驢找馬
- (idiom) (coll.) to continue in an unsatisfactory job (or romantic relationship etc) while actively looking for a better one
Trad. 騎驢找驢
- lit. to search for the mule while riding on it (idiom)
- fig. to look for what one already has
Trad. 騎驢覓驢
- see 騎驢找驢|骑驴找驴[qi2 lu:2 zhao3 lu:2]
Trad. 驢年馬月
- see 猴年馬月|猴年马月[hou2 nian2 ma3 yue4]
Trad. 驢脣馬嘴
- see 驢唇不對馬嘴|驴唇不对马嘴[lu : 2 chun2 bu4 dui4 ma3 zui3]
Trad. 博士買驢
- (idiom) to act like the scholar who wrote at length about buying a donkey without even mentioning the word "donkey"; to write at length without ever getting to the point
Trad. 卸磨殺驢
- lit. to kill the donkey when the grinding is done (idiom)
- fig. to get rid of sb once he has ceased to be useful
Trad. 驢唇不對馬嘴
- lit. a donkey's lips do not match a horse's mouth (saying)
- fig. wide of the mark; irrelevant; incongruous
Trad. 人家牽驢你拔橛
- see 別人牽驢你拔橛子|别人牵驴你拔橛子[bie2 ren5 qian1 lu:2 ni3 ba2 jue2 zi5]
Trad. 懶驢上磨屎尿多
- (proverb) A lazy person will find many excuses to delay working
- lit. When a lazy donkey is turning a grindstone, it takes a lot of time off for peeing and pooing
Trad. 別人牽驢你拔橛子
- lit. someone else stole the donkey; you only pulled up the stake it was tethered to (idiom)
- fig. you're the least culpable, but you're the one who gets the blame
Trad. 好心倒做了驢肝肺
- (idiom) to mistake good intentions for ill will