前門拒虎，後門進狼

前门拒虎，后门进狼
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 前門 qiánmén
  1. front door
  2. main entrance
  3. honest and upright approach (as opposed to 後門, 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 後門 hòumén
  1. back door; back gate
  2. (fig.) back-door influence; under-the-table dealings
  3. anus
  4. (computing) backdoor
5 進 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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前門打虎，後門打狼 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