- lit. to have sufficient reason to send troops (idiom)
- to do something with good reason
- to have just cause
Characters
- 师 (師): surname Shi
- 出 (出): to go out; to come out; to arise; to occur; to produce; to yield; to go beyond; to exceed; (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result); classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc
- 有 (有): to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)
- 名 (名): name; noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners); famous; classifier for people
Resources
- Wiktionary: 师出有名
- MDBG: 师出有名
- Examples with 师出有名 on Tatoeba
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