大石砸死蟹

Chinese
 
big; great; huge
big; great; huge; large; major; wide; deep; oldest; eldest; doctor
 rock; stone; 10 pecks smash; smashed
 
to die; impassable; uncrossable
to die; impassable; uncrossable; inflexible; rigid
 crab
trad. (大石砸死蟹) 大 石 砸 死 蟹
simp. #(大石砸死蟹) 大 石 砸 死 蟹
alternative forms 大石責死蟹／大石责死蟹
大石磧死蟹／大石碛死蟹
大石笮死蟹
Literally: “Big rock weighs down on a dead crab.”

Pronunciation

Idiom

大石砸死蟹

  1. (Cantonese) to coerce and overpower by force or authority
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