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一網打盡

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Chinese

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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

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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

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Idiom

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一網打盡

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

Descendants

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Sino-Xenic (一網打盡):