一棍子打死

Traditional form:

一棍子打死

Pinyin (reading):

yīgùnzidǎsǐ

Definitions:

• to deal a single fatal blow
• (fig.) to totally repudiate sb because of a minor error

Characters:

• 一 - one; a, an; alone
• 棍 - stick, cudgel; scoundrel
• 子 - son, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thing
• 打 - to attack, to beat, to hit, to strike
• 死 - dead; death; impassable, inflexible

Traditional characters:

• 一 - one; a, an; alone
• 棍 - stick, cudgel; scoundrel
• 子 - son, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thing
• 打 - to attack, to beat, to hit, to strike
• 死 - dead; death; impassable, inflexible