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趁热打铁

chèn rè dǎ tiě

4-character word Traditional 趁熱打鐵

What 趁热打铁 means

1. to strike while the iron is hot

The characters in 趁热打铁

• 趁chènto avail oneself of; to take advantage of
• 热rèto warm up; to heat up; hot (of weather)
• 打dǎa semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects…
• 铁tiěiron (metal); arms; weapons

Example sentences

• 趁热打铁。
  Strike while the iron is hot.