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鳥盡弓藏

鳥盡弓藏

See also: 鸟尽弓藏

Chinese

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to use up; to exhaust; to end; to finish; to the utmost; exhausted; finished; to the limit (of sth)

!a bow (weapon)

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storehouse; depository; Buddhist or Taoist scripture; Zang; Tibet; to hide away; to conceal; to harbor; store; accumulate

|- !trad. (鳥盡弓藏) | | | | |- !simp. (鸟尽弓藏) | | | | |}

Proverb

鳥盡弓藏

  1. to cast somebody or something aside when the purpose has been served