兔死狗烹
tù sǐ gǒu pēng
Pinyin

Definition

兔死狗烹
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tù sǐ gǒu pēng
  1. lit. to boil the hound once it caught the rabbit (idiom)
  2. fig. to get rid of sb once he has served his purpose

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

死
sǐ
  1. 1 to die
  2. 2 impassable
  3. 3 uncrossable
  4. 4 inflexible
  5. 5 rigid
  6. 6 extremely
  7. 7 damned
狗
gǒu
  1. 1 dog
  2. 2 classifier: 只 zhī
  3. 3 classifier: 条 tiáo
兔
tù
  1. 1 variant: 兔 tù
兔子
tù zi
  1. 1 hare
  2. 2 rabbit
  3. 3 classifier: 只 zhī
兔年
tù nián
  1. 1 Year of the Rabbit (e.g. 2011)

Idioms (20)

不到黄河心不死
bù dào Huáng Hé xīn bù sǐ
  1. 1 lit. not to stop until one reaches the Yellow River (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to persevere until one reaches one's goal
  3. 3 to keep going while some hope is left
不是鱼死就是网破
bù shì yú sǐ jiù shì wǎng pò
  1. 1 lit. either the fish dies or the net gets torn (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. it's a life-and-death struggle
  3. 3 it's either him or me
不知死活
bù zhī sǐ huó
  1. 1 to act recklessly (idiom)
不要在一棵树上吊死
bù yào zài yī kē shù shàng diào sǐ
  1. 1 don't insist on only taking one road to Rome (idiom)
  2. 2 there's more than one way to skin a cat
不见兔子不撒鹰
bù jiàn tù zi bù sā yīng
  1. 1 you don't release the hawk until you've seen the hare (idiom)
  2. 2 one doesn't act without some incentive