卸磨杀驴 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 卸磨殺驢 xièmòshālǘ ㄒㄧㄝˋ ㄇㄛˋ ㄕㄚ ㄌㄩˊ 男 女 lit. to kill the donkey when the grinding is done (idiom) fig. to get rid of sb once he has ceased to be useful Character by character 卸(xiè)unload 磨(mò)grind 杀(shā)kill 驴(lǘ)donkey Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0