"(like) a whale" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 蚕食鲸吞 | cán shí jīng tūn | lit. to nibble like a silkworm or swallow like a whale (idiom) / fig. to seize (territory etc) incrementally or wholesale |  |
| 蚕食鲸吞 | cán shí jīng tūn | lit. to nibble like a silkworm or swallow like a whale (idiom) / fig. to seize (territory etc) incrementally or wholesale | |