打草驚蛇

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See also: 打草惊蛇

Chinese

beat; strike; break
beat; strike; break; mix up; build; fight; fetch; make; tie up; issue; shoot; calculate; since; from; dozen
 
grass; straw; draft (of a document)
grass; straw; draft (of a document); careless; rough; manuscript; hasty
 
to startle; to be frightened; to be scared
to startle; to be frightened; to be scared; alarm
 
 snake; serpent
trad. (打草驚蛇) 打 草 驚 蛇
simp. (打草惊蛇) 打 草 惊 蛇
Literally: “to beat the grass and startle the snake”.
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Pronunciation

Idiom

打草驚蛇

  1. to give away your position through rash actions; to alert someone of your presence unwittingly

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 打草驚蛇 (“to give away your position through rash actions; to alert someone of your presence unwittingly”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 打草驚蛇, 打草蛇驚
Northeastern Mandarin Taiwan 打草驚蛇
Cantonese Hong Kong 打草驚蛇
Southern Min Xiamen 挓草驚蛇, 拍草驚蛇, 拍生驚, 拍驚
Tainan 挓草驚蛇, 拍生驚
Jieyang 打草驚蛇

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