指手画脚 (指手畫腳)
zhǐ shǒu huà jiǎo
Pinyin
Definition
指手画脚 (指手畫腳)
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- to gesticulate while talking (idiom)
- to explain by waving one's hands
- to criticize or give orders summarily
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to part company
- 2 to split up
- 3 to break up
- 1 Sagittarius (constellation and sign of the zodiac)
- 2 popular variant of 人馬座|人马座[Rén mǎ zuò]
- 1 finger
- 2 to point at or to
- 3 to indicate or refer to
- 4 to depend on
- 5 to count on
- 6 (of hair) to stand on end
Idioms (20)
一弹指顷
- 1 a snap of the fingers (idiom); in a flash
- 2 in the twinkling of an eye
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
不怕神一样的对手,就怕猪一样的队友
- 1 a boneheaded teammate can do you more harm than the most formidable opponent (idiom)