瘦死的骆驼比马大
shòu sǐ de luò tuo bǐ mǎ dà
释义
- lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom)
- fig. even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people
- a cultured person may come down in the world, but he is still superior to the common people