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- to boil; to brew (tea)
- to cook by briefly stir-frying and then mixing in sauce
- (old) to boil to death (judicial punishment in ancient times)
- lit. to boil the hound once it caught the rabbit (idiom)
- fig. to get rid of sb once he has served his purpose
- see 兔死狗烹[tu4 si3 gou3 peng1]
Trad. 治大國若烹小鮮
- ruling a large nation is like cooking a small delicacy (idiom)
- effective government requires minimal intervention
