张牙舞爪 meaning in English
(形容猛兽或恶人的凶相) bare fangs and brandish claws -- make threatening gestures; bare one's fangs and open one's claws; bare one's teeth and show one's claws; be fierce-looking; be ferocious-looking; bully with false power and influence; display one's teeth and brandish one's paws; engage in sabre-rattling; ferociously to bare its fangs; flare up in a fighting mood; indulge in sabre-rattling; open its fangs and spread its claws; prowl fiercely [arrogantly]; put on a fierce look; put out a claw; show one's fangs and claws; show one's teeth; snapping and clawing; snarl and bare one's claws; throw one's weight around with overweening arrogance; with teeth bared and claws outspread; ramp 短语和例子
Examples
- Did they show their teeth, as you surrounded their dwelling ?
你在那地方兜圈子时，有没有人张牙舞爪的？ - Camels and camelopards and an ebullient lion, all are vomiting water .
骆驼，长颈鹿，还有张牙舞爪的狮子，全都在喷水。 - A wild cur flung itself at him with bared fangs and slashed a rent in his overcoat .
一只恶狗张牙舞爪猛地朝他扑来，撕破了他的上衣。 - An angry dog shows its teeth before it bites
一个发怒的狗先张牙舞爪，后咬人。 - His teeth were bared like a wild creature ' s
他像只野兽一样张牙舞爪。