- lit. to boil the hound once it caught the rabbit (idiom)
- fig. to get rid of sb once he has served his purpose
Characters
- 兔 (兎): variant of 兔[tu4]
- 死 (死): to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid; extremely; damned
- 狗 (狗): dog; CL:隻|只[zhi1],條|条[tiao2]
- 烹 (烹): cooking method; to boil sb alive (capital punishment in imperial China)
Resources
- Wiktionary: 兔死狗烹
- MDBG: 兔死狗烹
- Examples with 兔死狗烹 on Tatoeba
Examples
俗話說：滴水之恩當湧泉相報！可俗話又說：過河拆橋、卸磨殺驢、兔死狗烹、鳥盡弓藏！