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扫榻以待
sǎo​tà​yǐ​dài

to roll out the welcome mat

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
  1. 扫榻 掃榻 sǎo​tà
    to dust a bed
    (literary) to sweep or dust off a bed or couch; to clean a couch
  2. 以 yǐ prepositionconjunction
    in order to
    in order to; so as to; used to connect two phrases where the second is the purpose of the first
  3. 待 dài verb
    to wait
    to wait for; to await