瘦ㄕㄡˋshòu死ㄙˇsǐ的ㄉㄜ˙de駱ㄌㄨㄛˋluò駝ㄊㄨㄛˊtuó比ㄅㄧˇbǐ馬ㄇㄚˇmǎ大ㄉㄚˋdà

（諺語）比喻有錢人家縱使變窮了，還是比本來就窮的人家有錢。《紅樓夢·第六回》：「噯！我也是知道艱難的！但俗語說的，『瘦死的駱駝比馬大』，憑他怎麼，你老拔根毛，比我們的腰還粗呢！」

英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