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Escape from a tiger to be eaten by a crocodile.

Proverbs and old sayings Thai

It is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep.

Proverbs and old sayings Tibetan about day

To feed the ambition in your heart is like carrying a tiger under your arm.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about ambition, heart

Even when a girl is as shy as a mouse, you still have to beware of the tiger within.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

If a girl seems as shy as a mouse, you still have to look out for the tiger within her.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A dragon will be teased by a shrimp in a shoal water; a tiger will be bullied by a dog on a treeless plain.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about water

A man's good name is as precious to him as its skin is to a tiger.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about name, good, good luck, man
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