颐指气使 (頤指氣使)
yí zhǐ qì shǐ
Pinyin
Definition
颐指气使 (頤指氣使)
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- lit. to order people by pointing the chin (idiom); to signal orders by facial gesture
- arrogant and bossy
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to make
- 2 to cause
- 3 to enable
- 4 to use
- 5 to employ
- 6 to send
- 7 to instruct sb to do sth
- 8 envoy
- 9 messenger
- 1 to use
- 2 to employ
- 3 to apply
- 4 to make use of
- 1 even if
- 2 even though
- 1 angel
- 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
了如指掌
- 1 to know sth like the back of one's hand (idiom)
- 2 to know (a person, a place etc) inside out
令人发指
- 1 to make one's hair stand up in anger (idiom); to raise people's hackles
任贤使能
- 1 to appoint the virtuous and use the able (idiom); appointment on the basis of ability and integrity
伸手不见五指
- 1 pitch-dark (idiom)