趁熱打鐵

1. • to strike while the iron is hot

Character by character

• 趁(chèn)avail oneself of
• 熱(rè)warm up
• 打(dǎ)a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings
• 鐵(tiě)surname Tie