坐观成败 — Chinese idiom
坐观成败
zuò guān chéng bài
Traditional: 坐觀成敗
Meaning
- to sit and await success or failure ; to wait to see the outcome of a fight before taking sides
- to sit on the fence
Character by character
- 坐zuòseat; to sit; to ride, to travel by
- 观guānto observe, to spectate; appearance, view
- 成chéngto accomplish; to become; to complete, to finish;
- 败bàifailure; to decline, to fail, to suffer defeat
Idioms sharing a character
- 坐不垂堂 zuò bù chuí táng
- 坐井观天 zuò jǐng guān tiān
- 坐享其成 zuò xiǎng qí chéng
- 坐以待毙 zuò yǐ dài bì
- 坐吃山空 zuò chī shān kōng
- 坐失机宜 zuò shī jī yí
- 坐失良机 zuò shī liáng jī
- 坐收渔利 zuò shōu yú lì
- 坐立不安 zuò lì bù ān
- 坐立难安 zuò lì nán ān
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