Turn the tables
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is d à ozh à g à ng à, which means to collect weapons and not fight any more. It comes from the liuhou family in historical records.
The origin of Idioms
Sima Qian of the Western Han Dynasty wrote in historical records liuhou aristocratic family: "when the Yin affair is over, the revolution is over, and the enemy is turned upside down and covered with tiger skin, so as to show that the world will no longer use troops."
Analysis of Idioms
Synonyms: back to earth, Ma fangnanshan
Idiom usage
The common people all hope that the ruler will fall back.
Chinese PinYin : dào zhì gān gē
Turn the tables
encourage the free airing of views. guǎng kāi yán lù
get rid of the stale and take in the fresh. tǔ gù nà xīn
Discard the short and use the long. qì duǎn yòng cháng