食指大动
shí​zhǐ​dà​dòng

to have an omen of delicious food

  • created sense approved 食指大动/食指大動 · shí​zhǐ​dà​dòng · to have an omen of delicious food — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    食指大动 / 食指大動

    shí​zhǐ​dà​dòng

    to have an omen of delicious food

    To have a premonition that one is about to eat something delicious, based on the historical anecdote of a twitching index finger

    食指 (literal) → 食指 · shí​zhǐ · index finger 大 (literal) → 大 · dà · greatly 动 (literal) → 动/動 · dòng · to move

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    created sense

  • created sense approved 食指大动/食指大動 · shí​zhǐ​dà​dòng · to be whetted — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    食指大动 / 食指大動

    shí​zhǐ​dà​dòng

    to be whetted

    To feel a strong appetite or be eager to start eating when presented with delicious food

    食指 (literal) → 食指 · shí​zhǐ · index finger 大 (literal) → 大 · dà · greatly 动 (literal) → 动/動 · dòng · to stir

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

    created sense