Do you know any idiom in your culture which expresses the same or similar meaning as It's the way the mouse walks that decides the way the cat walks?

Answer 1

In China, this idiom means to the effect that the behaviours of a creature dependend on the beheaviours of another creature which is directly related to it,and somtimes the change of the behaviours of a creature appears very strange,resulting from the unusual change of the creature that plays a great role in its life.