Keep like a virgin, leave like a rabbit

Keep like a virgin, leave like a rabbit

It means to be as steady as a virgin when on the defensive and as agile as a rabbit when on the offensive.

Virgin: unmarried woman; rabbit: Runaway rabbit. When an army is not in action, it is as steady as an unmarried girl; when an army is in action, it is as agile as a flying rabbit. source: nine places of Sun Tzu: "it is so that the beginning is like a virgin, and the enemy opens an account; the latter is like a rabbit, and the enemy can't refuse." In the seventh chapter of a dream of Red Mansions written by Cao Xueqin and Gao E in the Qing Dynasty: "this is not Taoist magic, but the most excellent strategy of using military force, which is called" keeping as a virgin, leaving as a rabbit "and" being unprepared. " usage: used as clause and attributive; used to describe action in order