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兔死狗烹

gǒu pēng (lit.) when the rabbit is dead, the hunting dogs are cooked (idiom) / (fig.) to discard or eliminate someone once they are no longer useful
variant of
rabbit
  to die / impassable / uncrossable / inflexible / rigid / extremely / damned
   gǒu dog / CL:,
    pēng to boil; to brew (tea) / to cook by briefly stir-frying and then mixing in sauce / (old) to boil to death (judicial punishment in ancient times)
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