紙上談兵

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Chinese

on paper to discuss military tactics
trad. (紙上談兵) 紙上 談兵
simp. (纸上谈兵) 纸上 谈兵
Literally: “to discuss military tactics on paper”.

Etymology

See Zhao Kuo on Wikipedia.

Pronunciation


Idiom

(deprecated template usage) 紙上談兵

  1. to engage in theoretical discussion that is worse than useless in practice; armchair strategist; idle theorizing