征大吞小 zhēngdàtūnxiǎo

zhēngdàtūnxiǎo phrase went on campaigns against the large [states] and swallowed the small
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Quote: from Scroll 1, Chapter 4 of 新語 “New Discussions,” by 陸賈 Lu Jia, d. 170 BCE (Amies 2021 tr.; see also tr. by Csikszentmihalyi 2006, p. 55)