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兔死狗烹

tù sǐ gǒu pēng

4-character word

What 兔死狗烹 means

1. (lit.) when the rabbit is dead, the hunting dogs are cooked (idiom)
2. (fig.) to discard or eliminate someone once they are no longer useful

The characters in 兔死狗烹

• 兔tùrabbit
• 死sǐto die; impassable; uncrossable
• 狗gǒudog
• 烹pēngto boil; to brew (tea); to cook by briefly stir-frying and then mixing in sauce…

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