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兔死狗烹
tù sǐ gǒu pēng
What 兔死狗烹 means
- (lit.) when the rabbit is dead, the hunting dogs are cooked (idiom)
- (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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