狗拿耗子

lit. a dog who catches mice / to be meddlesome (idiom)

dog / CL:隻|只[zhi1],條|条[tiao2]

old variant of 拿[na2]

variant of 拿[na2]

to hold / to seize / to catch / to apprehend / to take / (used in the same way as 把[ba3]: to mark the following noun as a direct object)

to waste / to spend / to consume / to squander / news / (coll.) to delay / to dilly-dally

(dialect) mouse / rat

(dialect) mouse; rat

son / child / seed / egg / small thing / 1st earthly branch: 11 p.m.-1 a.m., midnight, 11th solar month (7th December to 5th January), year of the Rat / Viscount, fourth of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4] / ancient Chinese compass point: 0° (north) / subsidiary / subordinate / sub-

(noun suffix)