1 to dominate

2 to rule

3 to dictate

4 master

1 to slaughter

2 (fig.) to ride roughshod over

3 to take advantage of (others)

1 prime minister (in feudal China)

1 ruler

1 to slaughter livestock

2 to govern or rule

3 to cheat customers

4 imperial official in dynastic China

1 to get trampled on (idiom)

2 to be taken advantage of

1 Zai Yu sleeps by day (idiom); refers to story in Analects of Confucius remonstrating bitterly with his student for sleeping during lectures

1 slaughter the cattle and butcher the sheep

2 to prepare a big feast (idiom)

1 to kill the pigs and slaughter the sheep (idiom)

1 kill the chickens and butcher the geese (idiom)