とらのいをかるきつね

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of とらのいをかるきつね – see the following entry.
【虎の威を借る狐】
[noun] donkey in a lion's skin; one who borrows the authority of someone else and acts arrogant
(This term, とらのいをかるきつね (toranoiokarukitsune), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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