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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「跌腳絆手」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

Refers to being hindered or restrained.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

diē jiǎo bàn shǒu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dit3 geuk3 bun6 sau2

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