纸上谈兵trad.紙上談兵
zhǐshàngtánbīng
- 1.lit. military tactics on paper (idiom)
- 2.fig. theoretical discussion that is worse than useless in practice
- 3.armchair strategist
- 4.idle theorizing
- 5.cf Zhao Kuo 趙括|赵括[Zhao4 Kuo4] leading an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰|长平之战[Chang2 ping2 zhi1 Zhan4] in 260 BC
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