Idioms About Carrying Weapons

lit. no blood on the men's swords (idiom); fig. an effortless victory

lit. broken halberds embedded in the sand (idiom)/fig. reminder of a fierce battle; remnants of a disastrous defeat

to feel a pain like a knife being twisted in one's heart (idiom)

with one's heart set on speeding home (idiom)

lit. with swords drawn and bows bent (idiom); fig. a state of mutual hostility/at daggers drawn

lit. an arrow at the end of its flight (idiom)/fig. spent force

lit. to sharpen one's spear only before going into battle (idiom)/fig. to make preparations only at the last moment

see 唇槍舌劍|唇枪舌剑[chun2 qiang1 she2 jian4]

lit. short-weaponed soldiery fight one another (idiom); fierce hand-to-hand infantry combat/to fight at close quarters

to lend sb a knife to kill sb/to get sb else to do one's dirty work/to attack using the strength of another (idiom)

to feel as if having one's heart cut out (idiom)/to be torn with grief

lit. honeyed words, a sword in the belly (idiom); fig. hypocritical and murderous

to shoot without aim (idiom); fig. to speak without thinking/firing blindly/to shoot in the air/a shot in the dark

to contradict oneself/self-contradictory/inconsistent

to wait for dawn, one's head resting on a spear (idiom)/fully prepared and biding one's time before the battle

lit. the assassin's dagger, concealed in a map scroll, is suddenly revealed when the map is unrolled (referring to the attempted assassination of Ying Zheng 嬴政[Ying2 Zheng4] by Jing Ke 荊軻|荆轲[Jing1 Ke1] in 227 BC) (idiom)/fig. malicious intent suddenly becomes apparent

wielding the halberd within the household (idiom); internecine strife

lit. to have a target in mind when shooting one's arrows (idiom)/fig. to have a clear objective

lit. flash of knives and swords (idiom)/fig. intense conflict

bold and decisive

lit. to go to war (idiom)/fig. to make a big fuss over sth