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打草惊蛇

dǎ cǎo jīng shé

4-character word Traditional 打草驚蛇

What 打草惊蛇 means

1. lit. beat the grass to scare the snake (idiom)
2. fig. to inadvertently alert an enemy
3. to punish sb as a warning to others

The characters in 打草惊蛇

• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 草cǎograss; straw; manuscript
• 惊jīngto startle; to be frightened; to be scared
• 蛇shésnake; serpent

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