关门打狗 — Chinese idiom

Meaning

• lit. shut the door and beat the dog
• fig. seal off the enemy's avenue of retreat, then strike hard

Character by character

• 关guānfrontier pass; to close, to shut; relation
• 门méngate, door, entrance, opening
• 打dǎto attack, to beat, to hit, to strike
• 狗gǒudog

Idioms sharing a character

• 事不关己 shì bù guān jǐ
• 人命关天 rén mìng guān tiān
• 休戚相关 xiū qī xiāng guān
• 咬紧牙关 yǎo jǐn yá guān
• 息息相关 xī xī xiāng guān
• 无关痛痒 wú guān tòng yǎng
• 紧要关头 jǐn yào guān tóu
• 裙带关系 qún dài guān xi
• 过关斩将 guò guān zhǎn jiàng
• 关怀备至 guān huái bèi zhì

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3). Retrieved 2026-10-22.