beat a retreat
Beat the drum, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is d ǎ Tu ì t á NGG ǔ, which means that the feudal officials beat the drum when they quit. Now it's like doing things with people and flinching in the middle. From the second fold of Dou E yuan.
Analysis of Idioms
Give up halfway, flinch, retreat in the face of difficulties
The origin of Idioms
In Yuan Dynasty, Guan Hanqing's the injustice of Dou'e, the second fold: "around, break up the drum, take the horse back to the private house."
Idiom usage
It is used as an object or attributive to describe a person who flinches in the middle of a difficulty. Beat the defeated Gong and beat back. Zhai Hao's popular edition in Qing Dynasty Volume I
Chinese PinYin : dǎ tuì táng gǔ
beat a retreat
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