大手大脚 — Chinese idiom
大手大脚
dà shǒu dà jiǎo
Traditional: 大手大腳
Meaning
- extravagant ; to throw away money by the handful
- wasteful
Character by character
- 大dàbig, great, vast, high, deep
- 手shǒuhand
- 大dàbig, great, vast, high, deep
- 脚jiǎoleg, foot; foundation, base
Idioms sharing a character
- 不识大体 bù shí dà tǐ
- 久仰大名 jiǔ yǎng dà míng
- 倾盆大雨 qīng pén dà yǔ
- 元恶大憝 yuán è dà duì
- 冒大不韪 mào dà bù wěi
- 功莫大焉 gōng mò dà yān
- 勃然大怒 bó rán dà nù
- 博大精深 bó dà jīng shēn
- 吃大锅饭 chī dà guō fàn
- 哄堂大笑 hōng táng dà xiào
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