钳马衔枚
Traditional form:
鉗馬銜枚
Pinyin (reading):
qiánmǎxiánméi
Definitions:
- with horses and soldiers gagged (idiom)
- (of a marching army) in utter silence
Characters:
- 钳 - pincers, pliers, tongs; to compress
- 马 - horse; surname
- 衔 - rank, title; to bite, to hold in the mouth
- 枚 - the stalk of a shrub, the trunk of a tree
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