- lit. beat the grass to scare the snake (idiom)
- fig. to inadvertently alert an enemy
- to punish sb as a warning to others
Characters
- 打 (打): dozen (loanword)
- 草 (艸): variant of 草[cao3]
- 惊 (驚): to startle; to be frightened; to be scared; alarm
- 蛇 (虵): variant of 蛇[she2]
Resources
- Wiktionary: 打草惊蛇
- MDBG: 打草惊蛇
- Examples with 打草惊蛇 on Tatoeba
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