五馬分屍
simp五马分尸ng5 maa5 fan1 si1wǔ mǎ fēn shī
English
- (idiom) to tear off sb's four limbs and head using five horse-drawn carts (historical form of capital punishment); (fig.) to tear apart; to utterly destroy; to brutally dismember
- dismemberment, as a person's head and limbs are attached to five horses and being tore off
- Dismemberment by horses
粵語 — Cantonese
- 古代酷刑嘅一種,將受刑者嘅頭同四肢分別綁喺五架馬車上面,當啲馬向前行嘅時候,就會撕裂受刑者嘅身體
Examples
五馬分屍係古代中國執行死刑嘅一種方法。
Dismemberment was a method of capital punishment in ancient China.
Sources: cc-canto, cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk