太阿倒持 tài'ēdàochí to surrender power to others Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 太阿倒持 tài'ēdàochí to surrender power to others To hold a sword by the blade and offer the handle to another person, meaning to hand over power or authority to someone else and risk being harmed by them. Frequency Written text 0.007 per million Cross-References Variant of 倒持泰阿 dàochítài'ēAntonym 喧宾夺主 xuānbīnduózhǔ Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
太阿倒持 tài'ēdàochí to surrender power to others To hold a sword by the blade and offer the handle to another person, meaning to hand over power or authority to someone else and risk being harmed by them. Frequency Written text 0.007 per million Cross-References Variant of 倒持泰阿 dàochítài'ēAntonym 喧宾夺主 xuānbīnduózhǔ Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
