Burn the boat and break the cauldron

Burn the boat and break the cauldron

Burning the boat and breaking the cauldron, pronounced f é nzh ō upॸf, is a Chinese idiom. He is determined to go all out. It's from nine places of Sun Tzu.

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It's like a wreck. He is determined to go all out.

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"Nine places of Sun Tzu:" Shuai and he went deep into the land of the princes, and made his chances, burning the boat and breaking the cauldron. " Liu Shao, the biography of the two evils in the book of Song Dynasty, said: "to support the army and not to unify, or to burn the boat and break the cauldron and step from Gu, or to take control of Yunyang in Wuhu." See "burning boats.".