棄車保帥

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Chinese

abandon; relinquish; to discard
abandon; relinquish; to discard; to throw away
 
the chessman "chariot"
to defend; to protect; to insure or guarantee
to defend; to protect; to insure or guarantee; to maintain; hold or keep; to guard
 
the chessman "general"
trad. (棄車保帥)
simp. (弃车保帅)
Literally: “(in the Xiangqi chess game) to abandon a chariot in order to protect the general”.

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Idiom

棄車保帥

  1. to sacrifice something of lesser importance to preserve something crucial

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