束手束脚 — Chinese idiom
束手束脚
shù shǒu shù jiǎo
Traditional: 束手束腳
Meaning
- restricted; constrained; inhibited
Character by character
- 束shùto bind, to control, to restrain; bale
- 手shǒuhand
- 束shùto bind, to control, to restrain; bale
- 脚jiǎoleg, foot; foundation, base
Idioms sharing a character
- 束手就擒 shù shǒu jiù qín
- 束手待毙 shù shǒu dài bì
- 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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