鱼肉

魚肉
yúròu
  1. flesh of fish
  2. fish and meat
  3. (fig.) victims of oppression
  4. (fig.) to cruelly oppress (i.e. to treat like flesh to be carved up)

CEDICT

  1. (literary) to cruelly oppress
  2. (literary) victim of oppression
  3. fish (as meat); flesh of fish
  4. fish and meat
  5. to cruelly oppress
  6. victim of oppression

Wiktionary

  1. 鱼和肉为刀宰割的物品，比喻无力抵抗，任人宰割。
  2. 把人当为鱼、肉，比喻欺凌践踏。

重編國語辭典

  1. 欺凌践踏
  2. 无力抵抗，任人宰割者
  3. 鱼的肉
  4. 鱼类和肉类

維基詞典

Entry Composition

1 鱼 yú used in the names of various aquatic animals that are not fish (including abalone 鲍鱼 bàoyú, alligators and crocodiles 鳄鱼 èyú and octopi 章鱼 zhāngyú)

classifiers: 條, 尾
2 肉 ròu
  1. meat
  2. flesh
  3. pulp (of a fruit)
  4. (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy
  5. (of a person) flabby
  6. irresolute
  7. Kangxi radical 130

Containing this entry

人为刀俎，我为鱼肉 rénwéidāozǔ,wǒwéiyúròu
  1. lit. to be the meat on sb's chopping block (idiom)
  2. fig. to be at sb's mercy
自相鱼肉 zìxiāngyúròu
  1. butchering one another as fish and flesh (idiom); killing one another
  2. internecine strife
鱼肉百姓 yúròubǎixìng to prey on the people
鸡鸭鱼肉 jīyāyúròu