前门拒虎，后门进狼

前門拒虎，後門進狼
qiánménjùhǔ,hòuménjìnláng
to beat a tiger from the front door, only to have a wolf come in at the back (idiom); fig. facing one problem after another

CEDICT

Entry Composition

1 前门 qiánmén
  1. front door
  2. main entrance
  3. honest and upright approach (as opposed to 后门, back-door or under the counter)
2 拒 jù
  1. to resist
  2. to repel
  3. to refuse
3 虎 hǔ tiger

classifier: 隻
4 后门 hòumén
  1. back door; back gate
  2. (fig.) back-door influence; under-the-table dealings
  3. anus
  4. (computing) backdoor
5 进 jìn
  1. to go forward
  2. to advance
  3. to go in
  4. to enter
  5. to put in
  6. to submit
  7. to take in
  8. to admit
  9. (math.) base of a number system
  10. classifier for sections in a building or residential compound
6 狼 láng wolf

classifiers: 匹, 隻, 條

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前门打虎，后门打狼 qiánméndǎhǔ,hòuméndǎláng to beat a tiger from the front door, only to have a wolf come in at the back (idiom); fig. facing one problem after another