4 characters Idiom and proverb 14 979

Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「倒戈卸甲」 and its explanation.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「倒戈卸甲」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

A metaphor for laying down one’s weapons and admitting defeat.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dǎo gē xiè jiǎ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dou2 gwo1 se3 gaap3

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