赶尽杀绝 — Chinese idiom
赶尽杀绝
gǎn jìn shā jué
Traditional: 趕盡殺絕
Meaning
- to kill to the last one
- to exterminate
- to eradicate
- ruthless
Character by character
- 赶gǎnto pursue, to overtake; to hurry; to expel
- 尽jìnto exhaust, to use up, to deplete
- 杀shāto kill, to murder, to slaughter; to hurt
- 绝juéto cut, to sever; to break off, to terminate
Idioms sharing a character
- 流星赶月 liú xīng gǎn yuè
- 一网打尽 yī wǎng dǎ jìn
- 一言难尽 yī yán nán jìn
- 一饮而尽 yī yǐn ér jìn
- 人尽可夫 rén jìn kě fū
- 人尽皆知 rén jìn jiē zhī
- 仁至义尽 rén zhì yì jìn
- 前功尽弃 qián gōng jìn qì
- 力尽神危 lì jìn shén wēi
- 各尽所能 gè jìn suǒ néng
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