pretend to be defeated
Feign defeat, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y á ngsh à zh à B à I, which means feigning defeat to attract people. From the romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Notes on Idioms
Feint: to pretend.
The origin of Idioms
The 96th chapter of Luo Guanzhong in Ming Dynasty: "tomorrow I will lead a thousand soldiers to battle, but I will feign defeat. Before I get to the north mountain, I will shoot a gun and attack from three sides, and I will win a great victory."
Idiom usage
He pretended to be defeated.
Examples
Liu and Gong feigned defeat and scattered. Yunchang captured Dezhou county. Anmin was settled, and the head teacher returned to Xuchang. Chapter two and six of romance of the Three Kingdoms
Chinese PinYin : yáng shū zhà bài
pretend to be defeated
Chapter eight of right biography. yòu chuán zhī bā zhāng
men tilling the farm and womenweaving. nán gēng nǚ zhī
thousands of thousands of grainelevators -- a year of abundance. qiān cāng wàn xiāng