Tie the horse and bury the wheel

Tie the horse and bury the wheel

Tie the horse and bury the wheel, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is x ì m ǎ m á IL ú n, which means that when the enemy attacks, tie the horse and bury the wheel on the ground to show that they will not retreat. It's from nine places of Sun Tzu.

The origin of Idioms

Sun Tzu's nine places: "so the square horse buried the wheel, not enough to rely on it." Cao Cao's note: "square, bind horse also; bury wheel, show not move also."

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate or attributive; used in writing

Examples

Who can be strong and resolute, drive deep, regardless of oneself, to be the first soldier? Nan Shi · biography of Yu Ji