耗子

(dialect) mouse / rat

(dialect) mouse; rat

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

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)

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

a blind cat finds a dead mouse (idiom) / blind luck

you're on your own (pun on 好自為之|好自为之[hao3 zi4 wei2 zhi1])

the cat weeps for the dead mouse (idiom); hypocritical pretence of condolence / crocodile tears