sell swords to buy calves(mài dāo mǎi dú)

sell swords to buy calves

Selling knives and buying calves, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is m à ID à om à ID ú, which means selling weapons and engaging in agricultural production. Later, it is also compared to changing business, that is, changing farmers or bad people from bad to good. It comes from the work of Bingxing baoxiegu.

The origin of Idioms

Wu Yuanheng of Tang Dynasty wrote a poem: "three rivers make the weather clear, sell knives and buy calves to eliminate worries."

Analysis of Idioms

Selling swords to buy cattle, selling swords to buy calves

Antonyms: fighting in the north and south, militarizing, selling calves and buying knives

Idiom usage

To be a predicate, attributive, or object; refer to a truce

Examples

It's not a good story in the green forest to drop weapons and take a hoe and learn from the story of the ancients. The 21st chapter of biography of children heroes by Wen Kang of Qing Dynasty

Chinese PinYin : mài dāo mǎi dú