手舞足蹈
shǒu wǔ zú dǎo
Pinyin
Definition
手舞足蹈
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- hands dance and feet trip (idiom); dancing and gesticulating for joy
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to part company
- 2 to split up
- 3 to break up
- 1 archer
- 2 shooter
- 3 marksman
- 4 (football etc) striker
- 1 Sagittarius (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
- 2 popular variant of 人馬座|人马座[Rén mǎ zuò]
Idioms (20)
一夔已足
- 1 one talented person is enough for the job (idiom)
一失足成千古恨
- 1 a single slip may cause everlasting sorrow (idiom)
一手交钱,一手交货
- 1 lit. one hand exchanges the cash, the other the goods (idiom)
- 2 fig. to pay for what you want in cash
- 3 simple and direct transaction
七手八脚
- 1 (idiom) with everyone lending a hand (eagerly but somewhat chaotically)
上下其手
- 1 to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint
- 2 fig. conspiring to defraud