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倒戈
倒戈
Chinese
upset; turn over; to tip; to pour; to go home; to the contrary; inverted; to fall; to collapse; to topple; to change; to fail; bankrupt
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Verb
倒戈
- (literally) to turn the weapon backwards, or upside-down
- (figuratively) to change sides in a conflict; to defect
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- 前徒倒戈，攻於後以北，血流漂杵。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- 前徒倒戈，攻于后以北，血流漂杵。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
- From: The Book of Documents, circa 7th – 4th centuries BCE
- Qiántú dǎogē, gōng yú hòu yǐ běi, xuè liú piāo chǔ. [Pinyin]
- The soldiers in the front turned backwards and attacked the ones at the back. The troop retreated with the blood deep enough to float a pestle.
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