好汉不吃眼前亏

1. • a wise man knows better than to fight when the odds are against him (idiom)

Character by character

• 好(hǎo)good
• 汉(hàn)Han ethnic group
• 不(bù)no
• 吃(chī)eat
• 眼(yǎn)eye
• 前(qián)front
• 亏(kuī)lose