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刀俎

dāo zǔ

2-character word

What 刀俎 means

1. sacrificial knife and altar

The characters in 刀俎

• 刀dāoknife; blade; single-edged sword; cutlass; (slang; loanword) dollar…
• 俎zǔa stand for food at sacrifice

Words containing 刀俎

• 人为刀俎，我为鱼肉rén wéi dāo zǔ , wǒ wéi yú ròu(lit.) to be the meat on sb's chopping block (idiom); (fig.) to be at sb's mercy

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