开弓不放箭
Traditional form:
開弓不放箭
Pinyin (reading):
kāigōngbùfàngjiàn
Definitions:
- lit. to draw the bow without shooting the arrow (idiom)
- fig. to bluff
- to be all talk and no action
- false bravado
Characters:
- 开 - to open; to start, to initiate, to begin
- 弓 - bow; curved, arched
- 不 - no, not, un-; negative prefix
- 放 - to release, to liberate, to free
- 箭 - arrow; a type of bamboo
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