1 surname Dao

1 vegetable knife

2 kitchen knife

3 cleaver

4 classifier: 把 bǎ

1 to lend sb a knife to kill sb

2 to get sb else to do one's dirty work

3 to attack using the strength of another (idiom)

1 chief offender

2 main culprit

1 terrible

2 fearful

1 lit. two segments with a single cut (idiom)

2 fig. to make a clean break (idiom)

1 lit. to cut all at one stroke (idiom); to impose uniformity

2 one solution fits a diversity of problems

3 one size fits all

1 lit. to be the meat on sb's chopping block (idiom)

2 fig. to be at sb's mercy

1 to lend sb a knife to kill sb

2 to get sb else to do one's dirty work

3 to attack using the strength of another (idiom)

1 show one's ferocious appearance (idiom); the atrocious features revealed

2 with fangs bared