缩手缩脚 suōshǒusuōjiǎo to be overcautious Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 缩手缩脚 縮手縮腳 suōshǒusuōjiǎo to be overcautious (idiom) to be hesitant or fearful of taking action; constrained by too much caution or worry to huddle up with cold To shrink or curl up one's limbs because of the cold Frequency Movie subtitles 0.270 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.379 per million Cross-References Antonym 大刀阔斧 dàdāokuòfǔSynonym 逼手逼脚 bīshǒubījiǎo畏首畏尾 wèishǒuwèiwěi Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
缩手缩脚 縮手縮腳 suōshǒusuōjiǎo to be overcautious (idiom) to be hesitant or fearful of taking action; constrained by too much caution or worry to huddle up with cold To shrink or curl up one's limbs because of the cold Frequency Movie subtitles 0.270 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.379 per million Cross-References Antonym 大刀阔斧 dàdāokuòfǔSynonym 逼手逼脚 bīshǒubījiǎo畏首畏尾 wèishǒuwèiwěi Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)