坐观成败
Traditional form:
坐觀成敗
Pinyin (reading):
zuòguānchéngbài
Definitions:
- to sit and await success or failure (idiom); to wait to see the outcome of a fight before taking sides
- to sit on the fence
Characters:
- 坐 - seat; to sit; to ride, to travel by
- 观 - to observe, to spectate; appearance, view
- 成 - to accomplish; to become; to complete, to finish; to succeed
- 败 - failure; to decline, to fail, to suffer defeat
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