dupe a person and then pull the ladder from under him

dupe a person and then pull the ladder from under him

It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is sh à ngsh à B á t à, which means to tempt people to climb a tree and pull out a ladder. It is a metaphor to draw him forward and cut off his retreat. From the wild record of Luohu.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym]: demolish a bridge across a river

The origin of Idioms

The first volume of Luo Hu Ye Lu by song Xiaoying quoted Huang Tingjian and Xinghua Hai's old hand in Song Dynasty: "this matter, Huanglong Xinghua is also regarded as the fate of helping the Tao. They have a hand together. Don't send people up the tree to pull up the ladder."

Idiom usage

Don't always do that kind of bad thing.