Tie the horse and bury the wheel(xì mǎ mái lún)
Tie the horse and bury the wheel
Tie the horse and bury the wheel, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is x ì m ǎ m á IL ú n, which means that when the enemy attacks, tie the horse and bury the wheel on the ground to show that they will not retreat. It's from nine places of Sun Tzu.
The origin of Idioms
Sun Tzu's nine places: "so the square horse buried the wheel, not enough to rely on it." Cao Cao's note: "square, bind horse also; bury wheel, show not move also."
Idiom usage
Used as a predicate or attributive; used in writing
Examples
Who can be strong and resolute, drive deep, regardless of oneself, to be the first soldier? Nan Shi · biography of Yu Ji
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