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虎の威を借る狐

とらのいをかるきつねtoranoiokarukitsune

expression

  1. small person acting arrogantly on someone else's authority
  2. person who borrows the authority of another to browbeat others
  3. a fox that borrows the authority of a tiger

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Data from JMdict, KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG), KanjiVG, CC-CEDICT and Make Me a Hanzi. Sources and licences