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Trad. 靴籬鶯
- (bird species of China) booted warbler (Iduna caligata)
Trad. 靴隼鵰
- (bird species of China) booted eagle (Hieraaetus pennatus)
- lit. the boot hits the floor (idiom)
- fig. a much-anticipated, impactful development has finally occurred (an allusion to a joke from the 1950s in which a young man would take off a boot and throw it onto the floor, waking the old man sleeping downstairs who could then not get back to sleep until he had heard the second boot hit the floor)
Trad. 隔靴搔癢
- lit. to scratch the outside of the boot (idiom)
- fig. beside the point
- ineffectual