兔死狗烹 — Chinese idiom
兔死狗烹
tù sǐ gǒu pēng
Meaning
- (lit.) when the rabbit is dead, the hunting dogs are cooked
- (fig.) to discard or eliminate someone once they are no longer useful
Character by character
Idioms sharing a character
- 兔死狐悲 tù sǐ hú bēi
- 守株待兔 shǒu zhū dài tù
- 东兔西乌 dōng tù xī wū
- 狡兔三窟 jiǎo tù sān kū
- 不知死活 bù zhī sǐ huó
- 九死一生 jiǔ sǐ yī shēng
- 你死我活 nǐ sǐ wǒ huó
- 出生入死 chū shēng rù sǐ
- 半死不活 bàn sǐ bù huó
- 厚死薄生 hòu sǐ bó shēng
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