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Cunning rabbit dies, good dog cooks. It refers to the person who is abandoned or killed after the event is completed. It comes from Han Feizi, the lower left of neichu.

[name] cunning rabbit dies, good dog cooks [Pinyin] Ji ǎ ot ù s ǐ, Li á NGG ǒ up ē ng cooking: cooking. When the rabbit died, the hound was cooked. It means that the person who serves the ruler is abandoned or killed after becoming a ruler. Source: Han Feizi, neichu Shuo, lower left: "when the cunning rabbit is exhausted, the good dog will cook, and when the enemy is destroyed, the schemer will die." In historical records, the family of Goujian, the king of Yue, says, "when all the birds are gone, good bows are hidden; when the cunning rabbit dies, the running dog cooks." The letter in the biography of Huaiyin marquis in historical records says: "Guo ruoren said," when a cunning rabbit dies, a good dog cooks it; when a high bird dies, a good bow hides it; when an enemy country is broken, a counsellor dies. " It's settled, I'll cook it! " [moral] awaken the broad masses of working people, wake up, do not be used by the ruler.