束手待斃

束
束
手
手
待
待
毙
斃
to wait helplessly for death (idiom) / to resign oneself to extinction

Characters and words in 束手待斃

束
shù = shu + Ø4
to bind / bunch / bundle / classifier for bunches, bundles, beams of light etc / to control
Add a new mnemonic for 束 = 口 + 木
束 = 口 + 木 : Mnemonic symbol: a bundle of firewood.

In the space station's bathroom (Ø4), Sheldon Shrimp (shu) built a stage out of bundles of firewood (束) to put his Christmas tree (木) on. Under the tree he put his favourite food: mandarins (口).
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束
手
to have one's hands tied / helpless / unable to do anything about it
手
shǒu = sh + ou3
hand / (formal) to hold / person engaged in certain types of work / person skilled in certain types of work / personal(ly) / convenient / classifier for skill / CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]
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Mnemonic symbol: a baseball glove. Sherlock Holmes (sh) is trying out his new baseball glove (手) in the outhouse's living room (ou3).
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待
da̅i = d + ai1
to stay
Add a new mnemonic for 待 = 寺 + 彳
待 = 寺 + 彳 : In front of the airplane someone devoted huge black sneakers to the local buddhist shrine. Don Quixote fits into them with his whole body and the sneakers are so cozy that he thinks he could stay like this forever.
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待
dài = d + ai4
to wait / to treat / to deal with / to need / going to (do sth) / about to / intending to
Add a new mnemonic for 待 = 寺 + 彳
待
待
毙
斃
to await death / to be a sitting duck
毙
斃
bì = bi + Ø4
to die / to shoot dead / to reject / to fall forward / (suffix) to death
Add a new mnemonic for 毙 = 比 + 死
Add a new mnemonic for 斃 = 敝 + 死

Words with 束手待斃

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Sentences with 束手待斃

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