拱手让人
gǒng​shǒu​ràng​rén

to hand over on a silver platter

  • created sense approved 拱手让人/拱手讓人 · gǒng​shǒu​ràng​rén · to hand over on a silver platter — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    拱手让人 / 拱手讓人

    gǒng​shǒu​ràng​rén

    to hand over on a silver platter

    (idiom) to surrender something submissively or without resistance; to give away something valuable to someone else without a fight

    拱手 (literal) → 拱手 · gǒng​shǒu · submissively 让 (literal) → 让/讓 · ràng · to transfer 人 (literal) → 人 · rén · other people

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense