拔刀相助

see 路見不平，拔刀相助|路见不平，拔刀相助[lu4 jian4 bu4 ping2 , ba2 dao1 xiang1 zhu4]

to pull up / to pull out / to draw out by suction / to select / to pick / to stand out (above level) / to surpass / to seize

knife / blade / single-edged sword / cutlass / CL:把[ba3] / (slang) dollar (loanword) / classifier for sets of one hundred sheets (of paper) / classifier for knife cuts or stabs

each other / one another / mutually / fret on the neck of a pipa 琵琶[pi2 pa5] (a fret on the soundboard is called a 品[pin3])

appearance / portrait / picture / government minister / (physics) phase / (literary) to appraise (esp. by scrutinizing physical features) / to read sb's fortune (by physiognomy, palmistry etc)

to help one another / to come to sb's help

to help / to assist

lit. to intervene when one sees an injustice (idiom) / fig. to rush to the rescue / to play the white knight