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You're right. That's a great proverb.

I don't know...I kind of like "Even monkeys sometimes fall out of trees".

Just because you have a hammer doesn't mean that everything is a baby.

My favorite is "Kill a chicken to let the monkeys see the blood."

While I appreciate your appreciation of Chinese proverbs, 肉包子打狗 describes a situation where you give something out without the possibility of getting it back. It's most commonly used like, "Lending money to untrustworthy people is like beating a dog with a meat bun." An approximate English phrase might be, "What's gone is gone."

Your interpretation is interesting though.

@2, That's a Japanese proverb.

God, I love the straightforwardness of Chinese grammar, as I understand it. Good saying, too.

@ 5 私は知っている。

Seems like a meat bun would effectively deal with the problem, and avoid violence. I guess you would need to go buy another meat bun if you were really hungry or had intended to give it to someone.

I think it depends on how hard you throw it.

Isn't that a smart way to keep a good dog around?

Worthy proverb. But what are you referring to Charles? Is this just a proverb mentioned for general edification? Or is there something at the root of this?

Four-character proverbs annoy me. They're always practically impossible to figure out, and I look like a moron when I pronounce them wrong. Grr.