落水狗 meaning - Chinese-English Dictionary

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MEANING OF 落水狗

落水狗

Definition dog in the water / drowning dog / (fig.) bad person who has lost favour or power

Usage

Characters 落 luò/là 水 shuǐ 狗 gǒu

COMMON WORDS WITH 落水狗
	痛打落水狗 tòng dǎ luò shuǐ gǒu relentlessly beat the dog in the water / flog the cur that's fallen into the water / be merciless with bad people even if they're down

	打落水狗 dǎ luò shuǐ gǒu lit. to beat a drowning dog (idiom) / fig. to pulverize an (already defeated) enemy / to hit sb when he's down

	落水狗上岸 luò shuǐ gǒu shàng àn like a dog who fell in the river and climbs out—shaking all over

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