拿手好戏 — Chinese idiom
拿手好戏
ná shǒu hǎo xì
Traditional: 拿手好戲
Meaning
- the role an actor plays best
- (fig.) one's specialty
- one's forte
Character by character
- 拿náto bring, to grasp, to hold, to take
- 手shǒuhand
- 好hǎogood, excellent, fine; proper, suitable; well
- 戏xìplay, show, theater
Idioms sharing a character
- 十拿九稳 shí ná jiǔ wěn
- 狗拿耗子 gǒu ná hào zi
- 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
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