Caveat: 호랑이 더러 고기를 달란다

This is an aphorism from my aphorism book.

호랑이 더러 고기를 달란다

ho.rang.i deo.reo go.gi.reul dal.lan.da

tiger some meat-OBJ ask-for-PRES

[He] asks a tiger for some meat.

Which is to say, the asking of the impossible. I was puzzled by the word 더러, here. I surfed the dictionary for a while and decided it must mean something like “some” or “a bit of.”  I’m not very confident of that, however.

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