手下败将 — Chinese idiom
手下败将
shǒu xià bài jiàng
Traditional: 手下敗將
Meaning
- one's defeated opponent
Character by character
- 手shǒuhand
- 下xiàbelow, underneath; inferior; to bring down; next
- 败bàifailure; to decline, to fail, to suffer defeat
- 将jiàngthe future, what will be; ready, prepared; a gener
Idioms sharing a character
- 七手八脚 qī shǒu bā jiǎo
- 上下其手 shàng xià qí shǒu
- 假手于人 jiǎ shǒu yú rén
- 两手空空 liǎng shǒu kōng kōng
- 大手大脚 dà shǒu dà jiǎo
- 大显身手 dà xiǎn shēn shǒu
- 妙手回春 miào shǒu huí chūn
- 得心应手 dé xīn yìng shǒu
- 心慈手软 xīn cí shǒu ruǎn
- 心狠手辣 xīn hěn shǒu là
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