偃旗息鼓 yǎnqíxīgǔ to cease hostilities Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 偃旗息鼓 yǎnqíxīgǔ to cease hostilities Literally means to lay down flags and silence the drums; used to describe a military unit hiding its tracks or, more commonly, to mean stopping a fight, ending a dispute, or ceasing all activity. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.690 per million Cross-References Antonym 重振旗鼓 chóngzhènqígǔSynonym 消声匿迹 xiāoshēngnìjī Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
偃旗息鼓 yǎnqíxīgǔ to cease hostilities Literally means to lay down flags and silence the drums; used to describe a military unit hiding its tracks or, more commonly, to mean stopping a fight, ending a dispute, or ceasing all activity. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.690 per million Cross-References Antonym 重振旗鼓 chóngzhènqígǔSynonym 消声匿迹 xiāoshēngnìjī Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
