以逸待劳 — Chinese idiom
以逸待劳
yǐ yì dài láo
Traditional: 以逸待勞
Meaning
- to wait at one's ease for the exhausted enemy
- to nurture one's strength and bide one's time
Character by character
- 以yǐaccording to; so as to; because of; then
- 逸yìto flee, to escape, to break loose
- 待dàito entertain, to receive, to treat; to delay, to w
- 劳láoto labor, to toil; to do manual work
Idioms sharing a character
- 一以贯之 yī yǐ guàn zhī
- 不以为然 bù yǐ wéi rán
- 不知所以 bù zhī suǒ yǐ
- 以一驭万 yǐ yī yù wàn
- 以假乱真 yǐ jiǎ luàn zhēn
- 以债养债 yǐ zhài yǎng zhài
- 以儆效尤 yǐ jǐng xiào yóu
- 以卵击石 yǐ luǎn jī shí
- 以史为鉴 yǐ shǐ wéi jiàn
- 以夷制夷 yǐ yí zhì yí
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