throw away one 's arms and cast aside one 's breastplate

throw away one 's arms and cast aside one 's breastplate

Throwing away one's arms and armor is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is p ā og ē Q ì Ji ǎ, which means to throw away one's arms and armor. It describes the situation in which an army is beaten and fleeing. From the romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties.

The origin of Idioms

In the Qing Dynasty, Chu people won the 53rd chapter of the romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties: "when the subordinates heard this, they all threw away their weapons and knelt down."

Idiom usage

He was defeated on the battlefield. The enemy began to surrender to our army.