拱手相让 — Chinese idiom
拱手相让
gǒng shǒu xiāng ràng
Traditional: 拱手相讓
Meaning
- to surrender sth without resistance
Character by character
- 拱gǒngto salute, to bow; arched; arch
- 手shǒuhand
- 相xiāngmutual, reciprocal; equal; each other
- 让ràngto allow, to permit, to yield
Idioms sharing a character
- 拱手让人 gǒng shǒu ràng rén
- 七手八脚 qī shǒu bā jiǎo
- 上下其手 shàng xià qí shǒu
- 假手于人 jiǎ shǒu yú rén
- 两手空空 liǎng shǒu kōng kōng
- 大手大脚 dà shǒu dà jiǎo
- 大显身手 dà xiǎn shēn shǒu
- 妙手回春 miào shǒu huí chūn
- 得心应手 dé xīn yìng shǒu
- 心慈手软 xīn cí shǒu ruǎn
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