Mend the scales and nourish the claws
As a Chinese idiom, the Pinyin is Xi ū L í NY ǎ ngzh ǎ o, which means maintaining and accumulating combat effectiveness.
Idiom explanation
It refers to maintaining and accumulating combat effectiveness.
Mend the scales and nourish the claws
wink and make signs to one another - jǐ méi liū yǎn