打虎拍蠅
Chinese
- beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen
tiger to clap; to pat; to beat; to hit; to slap; to take (a picture)fly; musca trad. (打虎拍蠅) 打 虎 拍 蠅 simp. (打虎拍蝇) 打 虎 拍 蝇
Pronunciation
Idiom
打虎拍蠅
- (neologism, politics, officialese) to crack down on both “tigers” and “flies” ― corrupt government officials at both higher and lower levels
Descendants
- → Vietnamese: đả hổ diệt ruồi (calque), đả hổ đập ruồi (calque)