走为上 (走為上)
zǒu wéi shàng
Pinyin
Definition
走为上 (走為上)
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- If everything else fails, retreat. (idiom)
- see also 三十六計,走為上策|三十六计,走为上策[sān shí liù jì , zǒu wéi shàng cè]
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 see also: 上声 shǎng shēng
- 1 to go to work
- 2 to be on duty
- 3 to start work
- 4 to go to the office
- 1 to walk
- 2 to go
- 3 to run
- 4 to move (of vehicle)
- 5 to visit
- 6 to leave
- 7 to go away
- 8 to die (euph.)
- 9 from
- 10 through
- 11 away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走[chè zǒu])
- 12 to change (shape, form, meaning)
Idioms (20)
一哭二闹三上吊
- 1 to make a terrible scene (idiom)
- 2 to throw a tantrum
一条绳上的蚂蚱
- 1 lit. grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string (idiom)
- 2 fig. people who are in it together for better or worse
- 3 people who will sink or swim together
一条路走到黑
- 1 lit. to follow one road until dark (idiom)
- 2 fig. to stick to one's ways
- 3 to cling to one's course
三天不打,上房揭瓦
- 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
- 2 spare the rod, spoil the child
上一次当,学一次乖
- 1 to take sth as a lesson for next time (idiom)
- 2 once bitten, twice shy