Throw away one's armor

Throw away one's armor

The Chinese idiom, diuku ī P ā Oji ǎ, means to describe the scene of fleeing after losing a battle, which is the same as "throwing away armor". It comes from Mencius, the first king of Liang Hui.

The origin of Idioms

Mencius · Liang Hui Wang Shang: "fill the drum, the blade is connected, abandon the armor and drag the soldiers, or stop after a hundred steps, or stop after fifty steps."

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym]: to lose or discard one's armor

Idiom usage

They believed that Zuo Guangxian's elite had been killed in the war this morning.