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手舞足蹈
手舞足蹈
Chinese
- {| style="clear: right;margin: 1em;border-collapse: collapse;text-align: center"
|- ! !hand; convenient; -er !to dance; to wield; to brandish !foot; to be sufficient
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tread on; trample; stamp; fulfill
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!simp. and trad.
(手舞足蹈)
| 手
| 舞
| 足
| 蹈
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!Literally: “hands dance and feet trip”.
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Idiom
手舞足蹈
- dancing and gesticulating for joy
- (TCM) involuntary movements of the limbs; convulsions, hemiballismus, chorea, athetosis or myoclonus