肉包子打狗

1. • lit. to fling a meat bun at a dog (idiom)
2. • fig. to flush (one's money or efforts) down the toilet
3. • to kiss sth goodbye

Character by character

• 肉(ròu)meat
• 包(bāo)surname Bao
• 子(zi)noun suffix, as in 椅子 yǐzi "chair"
• 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
• 狗(gǒu)dog