- shrimp soldiers and crab generals (in mythology or popular fiction, the army of the Dragon King of the Eastern Sea)
- useless troops (idiom)
Characters
- 虾 (蝦): used in 蝦蟆|虾蟆[ha2 ma5]
- 兵 (兵): soldiers; a force; an army; weapons; arms; military; warlike; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 蟹 (蟹): crab
- 将 (將): will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把[ba3])
Resources
- Wiktionary: 虾兵蟹将
- MDBG: 虾兵蟹将
- Examples with 虾兵蟹将 on Tatoeba
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