pretend to be defeated

pretend to be defeated

Feign defeat, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y á ngsh à zh à B à I, which means feigning defeat to attract people. From the romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Notes on Idioms

Feint: to pretend.

The origin of Idioms

The 96th chapter of Luo Guanzhong in Ming Dynasty: "tomorrow I will lead a thousand soldiers to battle, but I will feign defeat. Before I get to the north mountain, I will shoot a gun and attack from three sides, and I will win a great victory."

Idiom usage

He pretended to be defeated.

Examples

Liu and Gong feigned defeat and scattered. Yunchang captured Dezhou county. Anmin was settled, and the head teacher returned to Xuchang. Chapter two and six of romance of the Three Kingdoms