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一网打尽

yī wǎng dǎ jìn

4-character word Traditional 一網打盡

What 一网打尽 means

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

The characters in 一网打尽

• 一yīone; single; a (article)
• 网wǎngnet; web; network; to net; to catch with a net
• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 尽jìnto use up; to exhaust; to end

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