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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「打落水狗」 and how it’s used.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「打落水狗」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

metaphor for continuing to attack the bad guy who has already failed.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dǎ luò shuǐ gǒu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

da2 lok6 seui2 gau2

Chinese idioms come in large numbers, with diverse meanings and usages, offering endless learning opportunities. We hope these resources make it easier for you to study Chinese.