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草船借箭
cǎo​chuán​jiè​jiàn

leverage

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草船借箭 cǎo​chuán​jiè​jiàn
leverage
to use others' manpower and resources for one's own ends
stratagem
using straw boats to borrow arrows, an allusion to a strategy from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms

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