瘦死的駱駝比馬大
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Simplified 瘦死的骆驼比马大
- 1lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom)
- 2fig. even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people
- 3a cultured person may come down in the world, but he is still superior to the common people