前门打虎，后门打狼
Traditional form:
前門打虎，後門打狼
Pinyin (reading):
qiánméndǎhǔ,hòuméndǎláng
Definitions:
- to beat a tiger from the front door, only to have a wolf come in at the back (idiom); fig. facing one problem after another
Characters:
- 前 - in front, forward; former, preceding
- 门 - gate, door, entrance, opening
- 打 - to attack, to beat, to hit, to strike
- 虎 - tiger; brave, fierce; surname
- 后 - after; behind, rear; descendants
- 门 - gate, door, entrance, opening
- 打 - to attack, to beat, to hit, to strike
- 狼 - wolf
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