let slip the opportunity of

let slip the opportunity of

Miss a good opportunity, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Zu ò sh ī Li á NGJ ī, which means to lose a good opportunity without taking the initiative and acting in time. It comes from the miscellany of Xiaoting: the defeat of Mu guomu.

The origin of Idioms

"If we don't examine the enemy's situation, we will lose a good opportunity and make the heart of the soldiers rout."

Idiom usage

The verb object type is used as predicate and has a derogatory meaning. In Liu Bocheng's looking back on the long march: "the left line asserts that the middle factions are the most dangerous enemies of the so-called Chinese revolution, so ～."