- lit. to go into battle bare-breasted (idiom)
- fig. to go all out
- to come out in the open
Characters
- 赤 (赤): red; scarlet; bare; naked
- 膊 (膊): shoulder; upper arm
- 上 (上): used in 上聲|上声[shang3 sheng1]
- 阵 (陣): disposition of troops; wave; spate; burst; spell; short period of time; classifier for events or states of short duration
Resources
- Wiktionary: 赤膊上阵
- MDBG: 赤膊上阵
- Examples with 赤膊上阵 on Tatoeba
Examples
工程师不是赤膊上阵的莽夫，要完成自己的任务，必然离不开工具的支持，所以，优秀的工程师，必然从思想上重视工具。