留一手

留一手
liúshǒu

to deliberately withhold essential knowledge or skills as strategic insurance (typically to maintain leverage, avoid being replaced, or preserve authority in hierarchical relationships)

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MEANING

MEANING

  1. verb

    to deliberately withhold essential knowledge or skills as strategic insurance (typically to maintain leverage, avoid being replaced, or preserve authority in hierarchical relationships)

    • He always holds something back and doesn't teach me all his techniques.

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To keep the field of land from the Mão hour onward, hold it forever without leaving.

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