The cunning rabbit dies, the good dog cooks

The cunning rabbit dies, the good dog cooks

As an idiom, it means that the person who serves the ruler is abandoned or killed when he is finished.

[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." [moral] awaken the broad masses of working people, wake up, do not be used by the ruler.