拉开架势

Traditional form:

拉開架勢

Pinyin (reading):

lākāijiàshi

Definitions:

• to assume a fighting stance
• (fig.) to take the offensive

Characters:

• 拉 - to pull, to drag; to seize, to hold; to lengthen; to play (a violin)
• 开 - to open; to start, to initiate, to begin
• 架 - frame, rack, stand; to prop up
• 势 - power, force; tendency, attitude

Traditional characters:

• 拉 - to pull, to drag; to seize, to hold; to lengthen; to play (a violin)
• 開 - to open; to start, to initiate, to begin
• 架 - frame, rack, stand; to prop up
• 勢 - power, force; tendency, attitude