打落水狗

dǎ luò shuǐ gǒu

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Definitions

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

Child Words of 打落水狗

打
dá

dozen (loanword)

打
dǎ

to beat

水
shuǐ

water

狗
gǒu

dog

落
là

to leave out

落
lào

colloquial reading for 落[luò] in certain compounds

落
luò

to fall or drop

落水
luò shuǐ

to fall into water