打狗还得看主人 (打狗還得看主人)
dǎ gǒu hái děi kàn zhǔ rén
Pinyin
Definition
打狗还得看主人 (打狗還得看主人)
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- lit. when one beats a dog, one must answer to its master (idiom)
- fig. before punishing sb, one should consider how that would affect others associated with him
Character Decomposition
Idioms (20)
一人得道，鸡犬升天
- 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
- 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
- 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
- 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一炮打响
- 1 to win instant success (idiom)
- 2 to start off successfully
一眼看穿
- 1 to see through something at first glance (idiom)
一网打尽
- 1 lit. to catch everything in the one net (idiom)
- 2 fig. to scoop up the whole lot
- 3 to capture them all in one go
一举两得
- 1 one move, two gains (idiom); two birds with one stone