虎の威を借る狐

とらのいをかるきつね

toranoiwokarukitsune

expression

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person who swaggers about under borrowed authority, small man acting arrogantly through borrowed authority, a fox that borrows the authority of a tiger(idiom )

Related Kanji

虎	tiger, drunkard
威	intimidate, dignity, majesty, menace, threaten
借	borrow, rent
狐	fox