瘦死的駱駝比馬大 [－－－骆驼－马－]

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  1. lit. even a scrawny camel is bigger than a horse (idiom)
  2. fig. even after suffering a loss, a rich person is still better off than ordinary people
  3. a cultured person may come down in the world, but he is still superior to the common people