deliberate act as a warning to the opponent
It refers to deliberately warning and shaking people.
Idioms and allusions
[source]: Chapter 31 of biography of heroes and heroines by Wen Kang of Qing Dynasty: "how can it be a pawn if it's not an idea to knock down the mountain and shake up the tiger?"
Discrimination of words
Phonetic code: qszh synonym: knock a mountain to shake a tiger usage: as predicate and attribute; finger to finger to warn the other party
deliberate act as a warning to the opponent
a poor widow does not care for the weaving -- a patriot who cares not for his own enterprise - lí bù xù wěi
one 's mind concealed more knowledge than could have been contained in five cartloads of books - xué fù wǔ chē