五马分尸

1. • to tear off sb's four limbs and head using five horse-drawn carts (historical form of capital punishment) (fig.) to tear apart to utterly destroy to brutally dismember

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Character by character

• 五(wǔ)five
• 马(mǎ)surname Ma
• 分(fēn)divide
• 尸(shī)person representing the deceased