Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「枕戈披甲」 and how it’s used.
The featured idiom 「枕戈披甲」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
He used a spear as a pillow and sat in armor. Describes being prepared and ready to fight at any time. Same as “sleeping with weapons and sitting in armor”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhěn gē pī jiǎ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jam2 gwo1 pei1 gaap3
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