大打出手

1. • to come to blows
2. • to start a fight
3. • (derived from the term for a type of theatrical fight scene, 打出手 dǎchūshǒu)

Character by character

• 大(dà)big
• 打(dǎ)a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings
• 出(chū)go out
• 手(shǒu)hand