real guns and bullets
Live ammunition is a Chinese idiom. The Pinyin is zh ē nqi ā ngsh í D à n, which means weapons and ammunition used in the battlefield. More metaphors of actual combat. It comes from Ke Ling's preface to a Ying's selected essays.
The origin of Idioms
Ke Ling's preface to a Ying's Selected Essays: "although there are differences between live ammunition and smoke on paper, they also fight with fresh life."
Idiom usage
It is often used in figurative sentences
real guns and bullets
receive soldiers with baskets of rice and vessels of congee - dān sì hú jiāng
See the blue sky through the clouds - bō yún wū jiàn qīng tiān
have worked hard and performed a valuable service - láo kǔ gōng gāo
every form of evil cannot be done - zhū è mò zuò