老鼠

rat / mouse / CL:隻|只[zhi1]

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/ old (of people) / venerable (person) / experienced / of long standing / always / all the time / of the past / very / outdated / (of meat etc) tough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]

(bound form) rat; mouse

Mickey Mouse

lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of soup (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch

see 一粒老鼠屎壞了一鍋粥|一粒老鼠屎坏了一锅粥[yi1 li4 lao3 shu3 shi3 huai4 le5 yi1 guo1 zhou1]

it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black; as long as it catches mice it's a good cat (variant of a Sichuanese saying used in a speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平[Deng4 Xiao3 ping2] in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity)

@ / at symbol

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

Mickey Mouse

lit. rat's tail; fig. a follower of inferior stature

like mice trying to pull a turtle, nowhere to get a hand grip (idiom) / no clue where to start

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

lit. one pellet of rat feces spoiled the whole pot of congee (idiom) / fig. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch