师出有名

shi1 chu1 you3 ming2

lit. to have sufficient reason to send troops (idiom), to do something with good reason, to have just cause

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师出有名

shī chū yǒu míng

make trouble under a certain pretext; a good reason (pretext) for waging a war

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師出有名|师出有名 [shī chū yǒu míng] ► lit. to have sufficient reason to send troops (idiom) ► to do something with good reason ► to have just cause