一網打盡

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Chinese

one; single; a
one; single; a; (before verbs) as soon as, once; (before a noun) entire (family, etc.)
 
net; network
beat; strike; break
beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen
 
to use up; to exhaust; to end
to use up; to exhaust; to end; to finish; to the utmost; exhausted; finished; to the limit (of something)
 
trad. (一網打盡)
simp. (一网打尽)
Literally: “to catch all in one dragnet”.

Etymology

Japanese and Korean sources attribute the source to 宋史·卷三一四·范純仁傳》, although the Hanyu Da Cidian gives an earlier quotation from 東軒筆錄卷四.

Pronunciation


Idiom

一網打盡

  1. to round up the herd with one throw; roundup, wholesale arrest

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (一網打盡):