赤膊上阵 — Chinese idiom
赤膊上阵
chì bó shàng zhèn
Traditional: 赤膊上陣
Meaning
- lit. to go into battle bare-breasted
- fig. to go all out
- to come out in the open
Character by character
- 赤chìred, scarlet; blushing; bare, naked
- 膊bóshoulder, upper arm
- 上shàngabove, on top, superior; to go up; to attend; prev
- 阵zhènrow, column; ranks, troop formation
Idioms sharing a character
- 白眉赤眼 bái méi chì yǎn
- 赤手空拳 chì shǒu kōng quán
- 赤胆忠心 chì dǎn zhōng xīn
- 赤贫如洗 chì pín rú xǐ
- 金无足赤 jīn wú zú chì
- 上下其手 shàng xià qí shǒu
- 上天入地 shàng tiān rù dì
- 上当受骗 shàng dàng shòu piàn
- 上行下效 shàng xíng xià xiào
- 力争上游 lì zhēng shàng yóu
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