旗鼓相当 — Chinese idiom
旗鼓相当
qí gǔ xiāng dāng
Traditional: 旗鼓相當
Meaning
- lit. two armies have equivalent banners and drums ; fig. evenly matched
- roughly comparable (opponents)
Character by character
- 旗qíbanner, flag, streamer
- 鼓gǔdrum; to beat, to strike; to rouse
- 相xiāngmutual, reciprocal; equal; each other
- 当dāngappropriate, timely; to act, to serve; the sound o
Idioms sharing a character
- 偃旗息鼓 yǎn qí xī gǔ
- 别树一旗 bié shù yī qí
- 大张旗鼓 dà zhāng qí gǔ
- 摇旗呐喊 yáo qí nà hǎn
- 收旗卷伞 shōu qí juǎn sǎn
- 旗帜鲜明 qí zhì xiān míng
- 旗开得胜 qí kāi dé shèng
- 重整旗鼓 chóng zhěng qí gǔ
- 打退堂鼓 dǎ tuì táng gǔ
- 擂鼓鸣金 léi gǔ míng jīn
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