- to watch the fires burning across the river
- to delay entering the fray until all others have been exhausted by fighting amongst themselves (idiom)
Characters
- 隔 (隔): to separate; to partition; to stand or lie between; at a distance from; after or at an interval of
- 岸 (㟁): variant of 岸[an4]
- 观 (觀): surname Guan
- 火 (火): surname Huo
Resources
- Wiktionary: 隔岸观火
- MDBG: 隔岸观火
- Examples with 隔岸观火 on Tatoeba
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