趁哄打劫
chèn​hòng​dǎ​jié

loot in the confusion

  • created sense approved 趁哄打劫/趁鬨打劫 · chèn​hòng​dǎ​jié · loot in the confusion — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    趁哄打劫 / 趁鬨打劫

    chèn​hòng​dǎ​jié

    loot in the confusion

    to take advantage of a chaotic situation or someone's misfortune for personal gain; variant form of a similar idiom involving fire

    趁 (literal) → 趁 · chèn · while 哄 (literal) → 哄 · hòng · hubbub 打劫 (literal) → 打劫 · dǎ​jié · to rob

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

    created sense