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上下其手
Mandarin · pinyin shàng xià qí shǒu
Meanings
- to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint
- fig. conspiring to defraud
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4–4–2–3 · shang4 xia4 qi2 shou3
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
soeng6 haa6 kei4 sau2
Cantonese word readings for 上下其手. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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soeng6 haa6 kei4 sau2
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
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phrase
- (idiomatic) to practice fraud; to manoeuvre for some evil end; to get up to tricks
- (idiomatic) to signal as conspiratorial hint
- (neologism, misinterpretation of the original) to sexually harass by groping
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