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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「緩兵之計」 here, with meaning and examples.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「緩兵之計」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

A strategy to delay the opponent’s attack. It means to delay time and then find a solution.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

huǎn bīng zhī jì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wun6 bing1 ji1 gai3/gai2

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