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打落水狗

dǎ luò shuǐ gǒu

4-character word

What 打落水狗 means

1. lit. to beat a drowning dog (idiom)
2. fig. to pulverize an (already defeated) enemy
3. to hit sb when he's down

The characters in 打落水狗

• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 落luòto fall or drop; (of the sun) to set; (of a tide) to go out
• 水shuǐwater; (after a name) ... River; to swim (used mostly in 会水
• 狗gǒudog