"Expedient" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 权 |  quán | authority / power / right / (literary) to weigh / expedient / temporary |   |
| 权宜 | quán yí | expedient | |
| 权变 | quán biàn | to do whatever is expedient | |
| 拆东墙补西墙 | chāi dōng qiáng bǔ xī qiáng | lit. pull down the east wall to repair the west wall (idiom) / fig. temporary expedient / rob Peter to pay Paul | |
| 敲门砖 | qiāo mén zhuān | lit. a brick as a door knocker (idiom) / fig. a temporary expedient / to use sb as a stepping stone to fortune | |
| 拆东补西 | chāi dōng bǔ xī | lit. pull down the east wall to repair the west (idiom) / fig. temporary expedient / Rob Peter to pay Paul | |
| 挖肉补疮 | wā ròu bǔ chuāng | to cut one's flesh to cover a sore (idiom) / faced with a current crisis, to make it worse by a temporary expedient | |
| 野战简易武器 | yě zhàn jiǎn yì wǔ qì | field expedient weapon | |
| 聊备 | liáo bèi | to provide as expedient / to use temporarily as / to make shift | |
