偃旗息鼓
yǎn​qí​xī​gǔ

to cease hostilities

  • created sense approved 偃旗息鼓 · yǎn​qí​xī​gǔ · to cease hostilities — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    偃旗息鼓

    yǎn​qí​xī​gǔ

    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.

    yǎn​qí​xí​gǔ

    偃 (literal) → 偃 · yǎn · to lower 旗 (literal) → 旗 · qí · flag 息 (literal) → 息 · xī · to stop 鼓 (literal) → 鼓 · gǔ · to beat

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense