关门打狗 |
guān mén dǎ gǒu |
lit. shut the door and beat the dog (idiom) / fig. seal off the enemy's avenue of retreat, then strike hard |
关 |
Guān |
surname Guan |
关 |
guān |
mountain pass / to close; to shut; to turn off / to confine; to lock (sb) up; to shut (sb in a room, a bird in a cage etc) / to concern; to involve |
关门 |
guān mén |
to close a door / to lock a door / (of a shop etc) to close (for the night or permanently) |
门 |
Mén |
surname Men |
门 |
mén |
gate / door / CL:扇 / gateway / doorway / CL:个 / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate) |
打 |
dá |
(loanword) dozen / Taiwan pr. [da3] |
打 |
dǎ |
a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings (e.g. 打伞 "to hold an umbrella", 打电话 "to make a phone call", 打针 "to get an injection", 打手套 "to knit gloves", 打气 "to inflate") / to hit; to strike / to fight / (coll.) from; since (as in 打那以后 "since then") |
打狗 |
Dǎ gǒu |
Takow, Takao or Takau, old name for Kaohsiung 高雄 in the southwest of Taiwan |
狗 |
gǒu |
dog / CL:只,条 |