先斩后闻
xiān​zhǎn​hòu​wén

to act first and report later

  1. 先 xiān adverb
    first
    earlier in time or sequence; beforehand; in advance
  2. 斩 斬 zhǎn
    to behead
    to behead; to execute by decapitation, especially as a form of capital punishment in historical contexts
  3. 后 後 hòu locativepreposition
    after
    (bound form) later in time; afterwards; future; subsequent in a sequence
  4. 闻 聞 wén adjectiveverb
    to hear
    (literary) to hear; to catch the sound of something