- to wait at one's ease for the exhausted enemy
- to nurture one's strength and bide one's time (idiom)
Characters
- 以 (㕥): old variant of 以[yi3]
- 逸 (逸): to escape; leisurely; outstanding
- 待 (待): to stay
- 劳 (勞): to toil; labor; laborer; to put sb to trouble (of doing sth); meritorious deed; to console (Taiwan pr. [lao4] for this sense)
Resources
- Wiktionary: 以逸待劳
- MDBG: 以逸待劳
- Examples with 以逸待劳 on Tatoeba
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