束手待毙 — Chinese idiom

Meaning

• to wait helplessly for death
• to resign oneself to extinction

Character by character

• 束shùto bind, to control, to restrain; bale
• 手shǒuhand
• 待dàito entertain, to receive, to treat; to delay, to w
• 毙bìto kill; to die a violent death

Idioms sharing a character

• 束手就擒 shù shǒu jiù qín
• 束手束脚 shù shǒu shù jiǎo
• 束手无策 shù shǒu wú cè
• 案兵束甲 àn bīng shù jiǎ
• 无拘无束 wú jū wú shù
• 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

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