守株待兔
shǒu zhū dài tù
Pinyin

Definition

守株待兔
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shǒu zhū dài tù
  1. lit. to guard a tree-stump, waiting for rabbits (idiom)
  2. to wait idly for opportunities
  3. to trust to chance rather than show initiative

Related Words (20)

dāi
  1. 1 to stay
qī dài
  1. 1 to look forward to
  2. 2 to await
  3. 3 expectation
děng dài
  1. 1 to wait
  2. 2 to wait for
jiāo dài
bǎo shǒu
  1. 1 conservative
  2. 2 to guard
  3. 3 to keep

Idioms (20)

不见兔子不撒鹰
bù jiàn tù zi bù sā yīng
  1. 1 you don't release the hawk until you've seen the hare (idiom)
  2. 2 one doesn't act without some incentive
以礼相待
yǐ lǐ xiāng dài
  1. 1 to treat sb with due respect (idiom)
以逸待劳
yǐ yì dài láo
  1. 1 to wait at one's ease for the exhausted enemy
  2. 2 to nurture one's strength and bide one's time (idiom)
兔子不吃窝边草
tù zi bù chī wō biān cǎo
  1. 1 A rabbit doesn't eat the grass by its own burrow (idiom); One shouldn't do anything to harm one's neighbors.
兔死狐悲
tù sǐ hú bēi
  1. 1 lit. if the rabbit dies, the fox grieves (idiom); fig. to have sympathy with a like-minded person in distress