打狗还得看主人
Traditional form:
打狗還得看主人
Pinyin (reading):
dǎgǒuháiděikànzhǔrén
Definitions:
- lit. when one beats a dog, one must answer to its master (idiom)
- fig. before punishing sb, one should consider how that would affect others associated with him
Characters:
- 打 - to attack, to beat, to hit, to strike
- 狗 - dog
- 还 - also, besides; still, yet; to return
- 得 - to obtain, to get, to acquire; suitable, proper; ready
- 看 - to look, to see; to examine, to scrutinize
- 主 - to own; to host; master; host; lord
- 人 - man, person; people
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