Zougou

Running dog is a pejorative term for an unprincipled person who helps or flatters those who are more powerful and often evil. It is a calque of the Chinese pejorative 走狗, meaning a yes-man or lackey, and is derived from the tendency of dogs to follow after humans in hopes of receiving food scraps. Historian Yuan-tsung Chen notes that "In the West, a dog is a man's best friend; but in China, dogs are abject creatures. In Chinese, no idiomatic expression [is] more demeaning than the term 'running dogs.'"

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