Chinese–English
打草惊蛇
dǎ cǎo jīng shé · da cao jing she
Traditional 打草驚蛇
Meaning
CC-CEDICT- lit. beat the grass to scare the snake (idiom)
- fig. to inadvertently alert an enemy
- to punish sb as a warning to others
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