break up the whole into parts
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Hu à zh à NGW é IL í ng, which means to divide a whole into many scattered parts. From Mao Zedong's "strategic issues in the Anti Japanese guerrilla war.".
The origin of Idioms
Mao Zedong's "strategic issues in the Anti Japanese guerrilla war" said: "generally speaking, guerrillas should be used in a decentralized way, that is, the so-called" breaking the whole into parts. "
Idiom usage
It can be used in military affairs
break up the whole into parts
have hundreds of attendants at one 's beck and call - yī hū bǎi nuò