手負ておい猪じし

noun

cornered animal; wounded boar

Idiomatic expression literally meaning 'wounded boar', used figuratively for a person or animal that is cornered and therefore dangerous. Rare and somewhat literary.

• 手て負おい猪じしのように、彼かれは必ひっ死しに反はん撃げきした。

  Like a cornered animal, he fought back desperately.

• 「手て負おい猪じしには近ちかづくな」という諺ことわざがある。

  There is a saying: 'Don't approach a wounded boar.'