老鼠拖木锨，大头在后头

when the mice drag a shovel, the biggest thing comes second / the tip of the iceberg / the cockroach principle

prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity / old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough

rat / mouse / CL:隻|只[zhi1]

rat / mouse / CL:隻|只[zhi1]

(bound form) rat; mouse

variant of 拖[tuo1]

to drag / to tow / to trail / to hang down / to mop (the floor) / to delay / to drag on

(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden

shovel

see 大夫[dai4 fu5]

big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

big head / mask in the shape of a big head / the larger end of sth / the main part / the lion's share / dupe / sucker / (old) silver coin with a bust of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯[Yuan2 Shi4 kai3] on the obverse side

head / hair style / the top / end / beginning or end / a stub / remnant / chief / boss / side / aspect / first / leading / classifier for pigs or livestock / CL:個|个[ge4]

suffix for nouns

to exist; to be alive / (of sb or sth) to be (located) at / (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)

behind

empress / queen / (archaic) monarch / ruler

back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later / post-

behind / the back / the rear / later / afterwards / (in) the future