dupe a person and then pull the ladder from under him
It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is sh à ngsh à B á t à, which means to tempt people to climb a tree and pull out a ladder. It is a metaphor to draw him forward and cut off his retreat. From the wild record of Luohu.
Analysis of Idioms
[synonym]: demolish a bridge across a river
The origin of Idioms
The first volume of Luo Hu Ye Lu by song Xiaoying quoted Huang Tingjian and Xinghua Hai's old hand in Song Dynasty: "this matter, Huanglong Xinghua is also regarded as the fate of helping the Tao. They have a hand together. Don't send people up the tree to pull up the ladder."
Idiom usage
Don't always do that kind of bad thing.
Chinese PinYin : shàng shù bá tī
dupe a person and then pull the ladder from under him
habits become one's second nature. xí yǔ xìng chéng
The sharp mountain is not high. shān ruì zé bù gāo
respect one , you should not give him or her a present or repeatedly express it. xīn dào shén zhī