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国有危急之事，不须外力扶助便能安然平息。

危而不持，中文词语之一，原义为人即将跌倒而不搀扶，又指国有危急之事，不须外力扶助便能安然平息。

national danger, but no support (idiom, from Analects); the future of the nation is at stake but no-one comes to the rescue