"船頭驚鬼，船尾驚賊" meaning in Chinese

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "船头惊鬼，船尾惊贼",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Simplified Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
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      },
      "expansion": "船頭驚鬼，船尾驚賊",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "literal_meaning": "to fear ghosts at the bow and bandits at the stern",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Cantonese Chinese",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be timid and fear many things"
      ],
      "id": "en-船頭驚鬼，船尾驚賊-zh-phrase-7MVqz2T3",
      "links": [
        [
          "timid",
          "timid"
        ],
        [
          "fear",
          "fear"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Cantonese) to be timid and fear many things"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "roman": "wèishǒuwèiwěi",
          "word": "畏首畏尾"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese"
          ],
          "word": "船頭慌鬼，船尾慌賊"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "Cantonese"
          ],
          "word": "船头慌鬼，船尾慌贼"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "syun⁴ tau⁴ geng¹ gwai², syun⁴ mei⁵ geng¹ caak⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "syùhn tàuh gēng gwái, syùhn méih gēng chaahk"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "syn⁴ tau⁴ geng¹ gwai², syn⁴ mei⁵ geng¹ tsaak⁹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xun⁴ teo⁴ géng¹ guei², xun⁴ méi⁵ géng¹ cag⁶"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/syːn²¹ tʰɐu̯²¹ kɛːŋ⁵⁵ kʷɐi̯³⁵ syːn²¹ mei̯¹³ kɛːŋ⁵⁵ t͡sʰaːk̚²/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/syːn²¹ tʰɐu̯²¹ kɛːŋ⁵⁵ kʷɐi̯³⁵ syːn²¹ mei̯¹³ kɛːŋ⁵⁵ t͡sʰaːk̚²/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "船頭驚鬼，船尾驚賊"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "船头惊鬼，船尾惊贼",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Simplified Chinese"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "zh",
        "2": "idiom"
      },
      "expansion": "船頭驚鬼，船尾驚賊",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Chinese",
  "lang_code": "zh",
  "literal_meaning": "to fear ghosts at the bow and bandits at the stern",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Cantonese Chinese",
        "Cantonese idioms",
        "Cantonese lemmas",
        "Chinese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Chinese idioms",
        "Chinese lemmas",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 尾",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 船",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 賊",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 頭",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 驚",
        "Chinese terms spelled with 鬼",
        "Chinese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to be timid and fear many things"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "timid",
          "timid"
        ],
        [
          "fear",
          "fear"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Cantonese) to be timid and fear many things"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Jyutping"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "syun⁴ tau⁴ geng¹ gwai², syun⁴ mei⁵ geng¹ caak⁶"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Yale"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "syùhn tàuh gēng gwái, syùhn méih gēng chaahk"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Pinyin"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "syn⁴ tau⁴ geng¹ gwai², syn⁴ mei⁵ geng¹ tsaak⁹"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Guangdong-Romanization"
      ],
      "zh-pron": "xun⁴ teo⁴ géng¹ guei², xun⁴ méi⁵ géng¹ cag⁶"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/syːn²¹ tʰɐu̯²¹ kɛːŋ⁵⁵ kʷɐi̯³⁵ syːn²¹ mei̯¹³ kɛːŋ⁵⁵ t͡sʰaːk̚²/",
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese",
        "Sinological-IPA"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/syːn²¹ tʰɐu̯²¹ kɛːŋ⁵⁵ kʷɐi̯³⁵ syːn²¹ mei̯¹³ kɛːŋ⁵⁵ t͡sʰaːk̚²/"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "wèishǒuwèiwěi",
      "word": "畏首畏尾"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese"
      ],
      "word": "船頭慌鬼，船尾慌賊"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "Cantonese"
      ],
      "word": "船头慌鬼，船尾慌贼"
    }
  ],
  "word": "船頭驚鬼，船尾驚賊"
}

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  "title": "船頭驚鬼，船尾驚賊",
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