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Trad. 袒縛
- to surrender after baring oneself to the waist and tying one's hands behind
Trad. 作繭自縛
- to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising
- hoist by his own petard
Trad. 束手縛腳
- see 束手束腳|束手束脚[shu4 shou3 shu4 jiao3]
Trad. 造繭自縛
- to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising
- hoist with his own petard
Trad. 縛手縛腳
- (idiom) to be bound by too many restrictions
Trad. 縛雞之力
- lit. the strength to truss a chicken (idiom)
- fig. slight physical strength
Trad. 吐絲自縛
- to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom); enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising
- hoist with his own petard
Trad. 手無縛雞之力
- lit. lacking the strength even to truss a chicken (saying)
- fig. weak; unaccustomed to physical work
