- lit. two armies have equivalent banners and drums (idiom); fig. evenly matched
- roughly comparable (opponents)
Characters
- 旗 (旂): flag; variant of 旗[qi2]
- 鼓 (皷): old variant of 鼓[gu3]
- 相 (相): surname Xiang
- 当 (噹): (onom.) dong; ding dong (bell)
Resources
- Wiktionary: 旗鼓相当
- MDBG: 旗鼓相当
- Examples with 旗鼓相当 on Tatoeba
Examples
他觉得最终遇到了一个和他旗鼓相当的对手。