Simplified Chinese
偃旗息鼓
Stroke order
Sentence examples
他偃旗息鼓,不再搞文学创作了
tā yǎnqíxīgǔ , bùzài gǎo wénxuéchuàngzuò le
he stopped writing
让我们暂时偃旗息鼓
ràngwǒmén zànshí yǎnqíxīgǔ
let's put it down for a while
经过一天的激战,双方偃旗息鼓
jīngguò yītiān de jīzhàn , shuāngfāng yǎnqíxīgǔ
after a day of heavy fighting, both sides came to a halt