halt the troops and wait
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is à Nb ī NGB ù D ॸ ng. It means to put the army out of action. Now we are not going to work. From Xunzi Wang Zhi.
The origin of Idioms
"Xunzi · Wang Zhi" said: "Yan Ran, hold still."
Analysis of Idioms
[synonym] to wait for work with ease, to stand still
Idiom usage
When Shi Wengong heard the guns in front of the village, he just had to wait for him to come in, collapse the pit, and ambush troops in the back of the mountain to catch people. The sixty eighth chapter of Shi Naian's Water Margin in Ming Dynasty
halt the troops and wait
the greater fortune one amasses , the greater loss he will suffer - duō cáng hòu wáng
proceeding to action with fear or anxiety - lín shì ér jù