攻其不备 (攻其不備) gōng qí bù bèi
gōng qí bù bèi
set phrase
attack [the enemy] when he is not prepared
Domain: Idiom 成语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '攻其不備'; Guoyu '攻其不備')
Contained in
- 出其不意，攻其不备(出其不意，攻其不備) to catch an enemy off guard with a surprise attack (idiom, from Sunzi's The Art of War 孫子兵法|孙子兵法)
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷五十一 李陳龐陳橋列傳 Volume 51: Biographies of Li, Chen, Pang, Chen, Qiao Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 1
- 卷35 崔浩 Volume 35: Cui Hao Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 1
- 第九十四回 Chapter 94 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 1