袖手旁观 — Chinese idiom
袖手旁观
xiù shǒu páng guān
Traditional: 袖手旁觀
Meaning
- to watch with folded arms ; to look on without lifting a finger
Character by character
Idioms sharing a character
- 两袖清风 liǎng xiù qīng fēng
- 拂袖而去 fú xiù ér qù
- 断袖之癖 duàn xiù zhī pǐ
- 清风两袖 qīng fēng liǎng xiù
- 长袖善舞 cháng xiù shàn wǔ
- 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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