放开手脚 (放開手腳)
fàng kāi shǒu jiǎo
Pinyin
Definition
放开手脚 (放開手腳)
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- to have free rein (idiom)
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to part company
- 2 to split up
- 3 to break up
- 1 to put
- 2 to place
- 3 to release
- 4 to free
- 5 to let go
- 6 to let out
- 7 to set off (fireworks)
- 1 to lay down
- 2 to put down
- 3 to let go of
- 4 to relinquish
- 5 to set aside
- 6 to lower (the blinds etc)
Idioms (20)
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)
人有失手,马有失蹄
- 1 lit. just as humans make mistakes, so can a horse stumble (idiom)
- 2 fig. everyone makes mistakes
- 3 even the best fall down sometimes