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一棍子打死

yī gùn zi dǎ sǐ

5-character word

What 一棍子打死 means

1. to deal a single fatal blow
2. (fig.) to totally repudiate sb because of a minor error

The characters in 一棍子打死

• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 棍gùnstick; rod; truncheon; scoundrel; villain
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子
• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 死sǐto die; impassable; uncrossable

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