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瘦死的骆驼比马大

shòu sǐ de luò tuo bǐ mǎ dà

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Definitions

  1. 1. lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom)
  2. 2. fig. even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people
  3. 3. a cultured person may come down in the world, but he is still superior to the common people