Armed by the enemy

Armed by the enemy

It is a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is p ī Ji ǎ ch í B ī ng, which means wearing protective clothing and holding weapons; it means fully armed. It comes from the first chapter of Wendi in the Han Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

XunYue of the Han Dynasty wrote in the first chapter of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty that "Bo was in the country, and he was often afraid. Every prefect made Cheng Wei go to the county, and Bo was often carried by a soldier."

Idiom usage

An example is one of Su Shi's "qizengxiu bow and arrow society treaty" in Song Dynasty: "arrogant and lazy for a long time, courage exhausted, although close to garrison short, often with his wife weeping goodbye, by armour and soldiers, walking dozens of miles, even breathing sweat."