- to come to blows
- to start a fight
- (derived from the term for a type of theatrical fight scene, 打出手[da3 chu1 shou3])
Characters
- 大 (大): big; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
- 打 (打): dozen (loanword)
- 出 (出): to go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield; to go beyond; to exceed; (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result); classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
- 手 (手): hand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work; person skilled in certain types of work; personal(ly); convenient; classifier for skill; CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]
Resources
- Wiktionary: 大打出手
- MDBG: 大打出手
- Examples with 大打出手 on Tatoeba
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