分身乏术 — Chinese idiom
分身乏术
fēn shēn fá shù
Traditional: 分身乏術
Meaning
- to be up to one's ears in work
- to be unable to attend to other things at the same time
Character by character
- 分fēnto divide, to allocate; fraction; small unit of ti
- 身shēnbody, torso; person; pregnancy
- 乏fápoor; short, lacking; tired
- 术shùskill, art; method, technique; trick
Idioms sharing a character
- 一分一毫 yī fēn yī háo
- 一分为二 yī fēn wéi èr
- 不分伯仲 bù fēn bó zhòng
- 不分胜负 bù fēn shèng fù
- 不分彼此 bù fēn bǐ cǐ
- 不分皂白 bù fēn zào bái
- 五马分尸 wǔ mǎ fēn shī
- 分崩离析 fēn bēng lí xī
- 分秒必争 fēn miǎo bì zhēng
- 分而治之 fēn ér zhì zhī
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