を以て

をもって

by (means of), with

文を以て立つ

ぶんをもってたつ

to live by the pen

時を待つ

ときをまつ

to wait for a favorable chance, to wait for a favourable chance

これを以て

これをもって

with this I (formal), by this I (formal)

夷を以て夷を制す

いをもっていをせいす

to control foreigners by foreigners; to play one barbarian state against another

管を以て天を窺う

くだをもっててんをうかがう

to have a narrow view of things; to look at the sky through a tube

毒を以て毒を制す

どくをもってどくをせいす

fight fire with fire, set a thief to catch a thief, fight one evil with another

首を洗って待つ

くびをあらってまつ

to wait for one's punishment; to wait before one gets what's coming to one; to wash one's neck and wait (i.e. for one's beheading)

人事を尽くして天命を待つ

じんじをつくしててんめいをまつ

Man proposes, God disposes, Man does what man can do then awaits the verdict of heaven or fate

的を逸れる

まとをそれる

to miss the target

目を逸らす

めをそらす

to look away, to avert one's eyes

長蛇を逸す

ちょうだをいっす

to miss a big chance; to miss a good opportunity; to let one's enemy slip away

以て

もって

with, by

暴を以て暴に易う

ぼうをもってぼうにかう

to replace one tyranny by another; to use violence against violence

労力を省く

ろうりょくをはぶく

to save labor, to save labour

針路を逸れる

しんろをそれる

to swerve from the course

注意を逸らす

ちゅういをそらす

to distract a person's attention

常軌を逸した

じょうきをいっした

aberrant, eccentric, erratic

常軌を逸する

to defy accepted norms; to go off the rails; to be eccentric