halt the troops and wait(àn bīng bù dòng)

halt the troops and wait

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is à Nb ī NGB ù D ॸ ng. It means to put the army out of action. Now we are not going to work. From Xunzi Wang Zhi.

The origin of Idioms

"Xunzi · Wang Zhi" said: "Yan Ran, hold still."

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym] to wait for work with ease, to stand still

Idiom usage

When Shi Wengong heard the guns in front of the village, he just had to wait for him to come in, collapse the pit, and ambush troops in the back of the mountain to catch people. The sixty eighth chapter of Shi Naian's Water Margin in Ming Dynasty

Chinese PinYin : àn bīng bù dòng