比手画脚 (比手畫腳)
bǐ shǒu huà jiǎo
Pinyin
Definition
比手画脚 (比手畫腳)
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- to gesticulate
- to make lively gestures (while talking)
- also written 比手劃腳|比手划脚
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 Belgium
- 2 Belgian
- 3 abbr. for 比利時|比利时[Bǐ lì shí]
- 1 to compare
- 2 to contrast
- 3 comparatively
- 4 relatively
- 5 quite
- 6 comparison
- 1 a skill
- 2 mastery of a trade
- 3 by oneself
- 4 without outside help
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