打草惊蛇 dǎcǎojīngshé alert enemy Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 打草惊蛇 (打草驚蛇) dǎcǎojīngshé alert enemy idiom To inadvertently alert an enemy or target by acting prematurely or carelessly. 我们行动时一定要保持安静，千万不要打草惊蛇。 wǒmen xíngdòng shí yīdìng yào bǎochí ānjìng, qiānwàn bù yào dǎcǎojīngshé. We must keep quiet during our operation and avoid alerting the enemy. warn others idiom To punish someone as a warning to others or to serve as a deterrent. 他这样做原本是为了打草惊蛇，让其他人不敢再犯。 tā zhèyàng zuò yuánběn shì wèile dǎcǎojīngshé, ràng qítārén bù gǎn zài fàn. He originally did this to serve as a warning to others. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.49 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.696 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
打草惊蛇 (打草驚蛇) dǎcǎojīngshé alert enemy idiom To inadvertently alert an enemy or target by acting prematurely or carelessly. 我们行动时一定要保持安静，千万不要打草惊蛇。 wǒmen xíngdòng shí yīdìng yào bǎochí ānjìng, qiānwàn bù yào dǎcǎojīngshé. We must keep quiet during our operation and avoid alerting the enemy. warn others idiom To punish someone as a warning to others or to serve as a deterrent. 他这样做原本是为了打草惊蛇，让其他人不敢再犯。 tā zhèyàng zuò yuánběn shì wèile dǎcǎojīngshé, ràng qítārén bù gǎn zài fàn. He originally did this to serve as a warning to others. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.49 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.696 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
