打草 dǎcǎo

dǎcǎo verb to mow grass; haymaking; to write a rough draft (of an essay etc)
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '打草')

Contained in

• 打草惊蛇(打草驚蛇) beat the grass to scare the snake; to inadvertently alert an enemy

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷三十四　志第四:　兵衞志上 Volume 34 Treatises 4: Military 1 History of Liao 遼史 — count: 4
• 第八十五回 Chapter 85 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 2
• 卷一百三十七 外國列傳一: 契丹 Volume 137: Foreign States Biographies 1 - Khitan Old History of the Five Dynasties 舊五代史 — count: 1
• 卷七十二 四夷附錄第一: 契丹 Volume 72: Appendix on the Four Barbarians 1 - Khitan 1 New History of the Five Dynasties 新五代史 — count: 1

Collocations

• 打草谷 (打草谷) 打草谷 — Old History of the Five Dynasties 舊五代史, 卷一百三十七 外國列傳一: 契丹 Volume 137: Foreign States Biographies 1 - Khitan — count: 6