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Trad. 鍵鼠
- keyboard and mouse (abbr. for 鍵盤|键盘[jian4 pan2] + 鼠標|鼠标[shu3 biao1])
Trad. 土撥鼠
- (zoology) marmot (in the US, esp. groundhog or woodchuck)
Trad. 老鼠倉
- (finance) "rat trading", a form of front-running in which a fund manager secretly builds a position in a security at low prices using personal funds, then uses public funds to drive up the price
Trad. 貓哭老鼠
- the cat weeps for the dead mouse (idiom); hypocritical pretence of condolence
- crocodile tears
Trad. 賊眉鼠眼
- shifty-eyed
- crafty-looking (idiom)
Trad. 膽小如鼠
- (idiom) chicken-hearted; gutless
Trad. 抱頭鼠竄
- to cover one's head and sneak away like a rat (idiom); to flee ignominiously
Trad. 抱頭鼠躥
- to cover one's head and sneak away like a rat (idiom); to flee ignominiously
- also written 抱頭鼠竄|抱头鼠窜
Trad. 過街老鼠
- sb or sth detested by all
- target of scorn
- anathema
- cf. 老鼠過街，人人喊打|老鼠过街，人人喊打[lao3 shu3 guo4 jie1 , ren2 ren2 han3 da3]
- lit. to refrain from shooting at the rat for fear of breaking the vases (idiom)
- to not act against an evil so as to prevent harm to innocents
- lit. rat's tail; fig. a follower of inferior stature
Trad. 鼠疫桿菌
- Yersinia pestis
- the bubonic plage bacillus
Trad. 羅雀掘鼠
- lit. to net sparrows and dig out rats (idiom)
- fig. to try every possible means of obtaining food (in times of starvation)
Trad. 首鼠兩端
- (idiom) to hesitate
- to remain undecided
- lit. a dog who catches mice (idiom)
- fig. to be meddlesome
Trad. 窮鼠嚙狸
- a desperate rat will bite the fox (idiom); the smallest worm will turn being trodden on
Trad. 獐頭鼠目
- lit. the head of a river deer and the eyes of a rat (idiom)
- fig. repulsively ugly and shifty-looking
- lit. rat in a country shrine, fox on town walls; fig. unprincipled thugs who abuse others' power to bully and exploit people
- great jerboa (Allactaga major)
Trad. 鼠型斑疹傷寒
- murine typhus
Trad. 鼠蚤型斑疹傷寒
- murine typhus fever
Trad. 黃鼠狼給雞拜年
- Beware of suspicious folk bearing gifts, they are sure to be ill-intentioned. (idiom)
Trad. 坎貝爾侏儒倉鼠
- Campbell's dwarf hamster (Phodopus campbelli)
Trad. 老鼠拉龜，無從下手
- like mice trying to pull a turtle, nowhere to get a hand grip (idiom)
- no clue where to start
Trad. 老鼠過街，人人喊打
- lit. when a rat crosses the street, people chase it down (idiom)
- fig. everyone detests a lowlife
Trad. 一粒老鼠屎壞了一鍋粥
- lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom)
- fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
Trad. 一顆老鼠屎壞了一鍋湯
- lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom)
- fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
Trad. 一顆老鼠屎壞了一鍋粥
- see 一粒老鼠屎壞了一鍋粥|一粒老鼠屎坏了一锅粥[yi1 li4 lao3 shu3 shi3 huai4 le5 yi1 guo1 zhou1]