打落水狗 meaning - Chinese-English Dictionary

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MEANING OF 打落水狗

打落水狗

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

Idiom The metaphor continues to fight the bad guys who have failed

Usage

中文释义比喻继续打击那些已经失败了的敌人，不使死灰复燃。

Characters 打 dǎ/dá 落 luò/là 水 shuǐ 狗 gǒu

COMMON WORDS WITH 打落水狗
	痛打落水狗 tòng dǎ luò shuǐ gǒu relentlessly beat the dog in the water / flog the cur that's fallen into the water / be merciless with bad people even if they're down

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