Gummy bears go straight on the hips. Naturally, we’ve known this for a long time in the land of gummy bear connoisseurs. But the Chinese have had a cute euphemism for this kind of gourmet flab for even longer – namely the bear waist! It appeared in classical texts as part of the four-character idiom 虎背熊腰 hǔbèi-xióngyāo – literally „tiger’s back and bear’s waist.“ This chengyu (proverb) refers to people with a back as wide as a tiger and a waist as thick as a bear, in Chinese 背宽厚如虎，腰粗壮如熊 (bèi kuānhòu rú hǔ, yāo cūzhuàng rú xióng).