招兵买马 [招兵買馬] - to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom); to raise a large army, fig. to expand business, to recruit new staff - zhāo bīng mǎi mǎ | Definition | ChinesePod.com

招兵买马 (招兵買馬)

zhāo bīng mǎi mǎ

Pinyin

Definition

招兵买马 (招兵買馬)

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zhāo bīng mǎi mǎ

to recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom); to raise a large army
fig. to expand business
to recruit new staff

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

bīng qì

1 weaponry
2 weapons
3 arms

shì bīng

1 soldier
2 classifier: 个 gè

qí bīng

1 troops appearing suddenly (in a raid or ambush)

zhāo

1 to recruit
2 to provoke
3 to beckon
4 to incur
5 to infect
6 contagious
7 a move (chess)
8 a maneuver
9 device
10 trick
11 to confess

zhāo hu

1 to call out to
2 to greet
3 to say hello to
4 to inform
5 to take care of
6 to take care that one does not

Idioms (20)

先礼后兵

xiān lǐ hòu bīng

1 peaceful measures before using force (idiom); diplomacy before violence
2 jaw-jaw is better than war-war

全民皆兵

quán mín jiē bīng

1 to bring the entire nation to arms (idiom)

兵不血刃

bīng bù xuè rèn

1 lit. no blood on the men's swords (idiom); fig. an effortless victory

兵来将挡，水来土掩

bīng lái jiàng dǎng , shuǐ lái tǔ yǎn

1 counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action
2 to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation

兵来将敌，水来土堰

bīng lái jiàng dí , shuǐ lái tǔ yàn

1 counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir (idiom); different situations call for different action
2 to adopt measures appropriate to the actual situation