The prescription
The Chinese idiom, J ì ch ù f ā ngku ì in pinyin, means that the plan is insufficient and the plan is exhausted. It comes from the book of talking with Zeng Shilang about military affairs.
The origin of Idioms
Wang Kaiyun's book "talking with Zeng Shilang about military affairs" says: "if we don't get the essentials of suppressing thieves, we must change them. If we don't decide horizontally, we can stand and wait for them to wither."
Idiom usage
To act as a predicate or attributive
The prescription
spread rumours to injure others ' reputation - zào yáo zhòng shāng
the stratagem of concealing one 's true features - tāo huì zhī jì
Turning from precipice to stone - xuán yá zhuǎn shí