Read Edit View history 偃旗息鼓 yǎnqíxīgǔ to cease hostilities Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 偃旗息鼓 yǎnqíxīgǔ 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. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.690 per million Cross-References Antonym 重振旗鼓 chóngzhènqígǔSynonym 消声匿迹 xiāoshēngnìjī Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
偃旗息鼓 yǎnqíxīgǔ 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. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.690 per million Cross-References Antonym 重振旗鼓 chóngzhènqígǔSynonym 消声匿迹 xiāoshēngnìjī Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)