suffer heavy casualties(sǔn jūn zhé jiàng)

suffer heavy casualties

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is s ǔ NJ ū nzh é Ji à ng, which means to lose a general at the expense of his troops. Soldiers and generals all have losses. It means to lose a battle. From Le Yi Tu Qi.

The origin of Idioms

The first part of Yueyi Tuqi written by Wu Mingshi in Yuan Dynasty: "if you don't fight with him, it's better to defend the city."

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym]: lose a general at the expense of a soldier, lose a general at the expense of a soldier [antonym]: win a complete victory

Idiom usage

He was defeated. He also said that Hou Hu, relying on his talent and reckless work, proposed to fight for the army. Who knows that today he was defeated at the expense of the army, and he was very ashamed. He had to gather the defeated soldiers and set up a camp, and he was depressed. The second chapter of the romance of Fengshen by Xu Zhonglin in Ming Dynasty

Chinese PinYin : sǔn jūn zhé jiàng