throw off all one's gear

throw off all one's gear

Abandoning armor and helmets is a Chinese idiom. The Pinyin is Q ì Ji ǎ di ū Ku ī, which means to describe the appearance of running away after losing a battle. It comes from Mencius, King 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

Synonyms: scurrying, throwing away armor

Idiom usage

He was defeated in the war

Examples

The 104th chapter of the romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong of Ming Dynasty: "the Wei soldiers are so desperate that they abandon their armour and helmets, throw away their halberds, flee their lives, trample on each other, and die countless."