idiom > attack on a grand scale
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Large sheet of a punitive expedition
  Explanation: Photo: cast; punitive expedition: crusade. Metaphor of a large scale attack or condemnation.
  Usage: Verb-object type; for the predicate; used for written language
  Source: Qing Wu Jian "pain history" section 19 back: "If His Majesty the necessary large sheet of a punitive expedition to show Tianwei, when send more troops to win."
  Examples: If ~ of a Fen divinity, relying on the empty text to discourage countries, where he is willing to willing to give in too! (Qing Zeng Pu, "Flower" Fourteenth back)
dà zhāng tà fá
  Great planning to attack him down, also refers to attacks on people, to denounce
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Large-scale campaign against military forces
  Large-scale use of troops conquered. "Painful history" back to the 19th: "A little-played Road assassination: 'foreign minister that Japan's far not easy ... ... if His Majesty the necessary cutting large sheet of fuss, to show the emperor, then when send more troops to win. '"
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Referring to the violent attack or denounce
  Referring to the severe criticism or condemnation. "October" 1981, No. 3: "obviously a good thing, why do some people ... ... also very dissatisfied with great fuss then?"
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No. 5
  词目 大张挞伐
  发音 dà zhāng tà fá
  释义 张:施展;挞伐:讨伐,用武力使屈服。比喻大规模地攻击或声讨。
  出处 《诗经·商颂·殷武》:“挞彼殷武,奋伐荆楚。”
  示例 我国若不~,一奋神威,靠着各国的空文劝阻,他那里肯甘心就范呢!(清·曾朴《孽海花》第十四回)
English Expression
  1. n.:  attack on a grand scale
  2. v.:   let out a broadside,   attack with full force
Thesaurus
awfully, condemn both in speeches and in writings, resort to arms, energetically, roughhouse, Sounding drum and the attack, send a punitive expedition denounce sb. publicly for his crimes, awfully; terribly
Antonym Group
Guiltless Ding Dong, cannot tell beans from wheat, The journey, dwarf to watch a play, bark at shadows and sounds, Dwarf theater, Simply repeating what bark Shadow
Containing Phrases
a speech full of invective