窮鼠囓狸。

A cornered rat will bite a cat.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 窮 qióng
  1. poor
  2. destitute
  3. to use up
  4. to exhaust
  5. thoroughly
  6. extremely
  7. (coll.) persistently and pointlessly
2 鼠 shǔ (bound form) rat; mouse
3 囓 niè
  1. variant of 啮 niè
  2. to gnaw
=4 狸 lí
  1. raccoon dog
  2. fox-like animal
=4 狸 lí variant of 狸 lí