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  • lapel
  • overlap of Chinese gown
  • fig. bosom (the seat of emotions)
  • to cherish (ambition, desires, honorable intentions etc) in one's bosom
Trad. 襟懷
  • bosom (the seat of emotions)
  • one's mind
Trad. 連襟
  • husbands of sisters
  • brothers-in-law
  • extremely close (of a relationship)
  • the front piece(s) of a Chinese jacket
  • lapel
Trad. 對襟
  • buttoned Chinese jacket
Trad. 開襟
  • buttoned Chinese tunic
  • unbuttoned (to cool down)
  • husband of wife's older sister
  • (literary) breadth of mind
  • lapel of jacket
  • heart
  • aspiration
  • vision
  • husband of wife's younger sister
Trad. 襟懷坦白
  • open and candid (idiom); not hiding anything
  • ingenuous
  • openhearted
  • unselfish
  • magnanimous
  • broad-minded
Trad. 捉襟見肘
  • lit. pulling on the lapels exposes the elbows (idiom)
  • strapped for cash
  • unable to make ends meet
  • to secure a stranglehold (idiom); fig. to hold a strategic pass

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