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打草驚蛇

打草驚蛇

See also: 打草惊蛇

Chinese

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beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen

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grass; straw; draft (of a document); careless; rough; manuscript; hasty

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to startle; to be frightened; to be scared; alarm

!snake; serpent |- !trad. (打草驚蛇) | | | | |- !simp. (打草惊蛇) | | | | |}

Verb

打草驚蛇

  1. (idiomatic) to give away your position through rash actions, to alert someone of your presence unwittingly