赔了夫人又折兵
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lit. having given away a bride, to lose one's army on top of it (idiom)
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fig. to suffer a double loss after trying to trick the enemy
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Idiom惯用语 · In everyday use
- Literally
- lost the lady and lost the soldiers too
- Meaning
- To try to gain an advantage and end up worse off, losing doubly. From Romance of the Three Kingdoms, where Zhou Yu's plot to trap Liu Bei backfired.
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