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This introduction highlights the idiom 「擠手捏腳」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Deliberately extending hands or feet to touch the other person’s body implies frivolous intent.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jǐ shǒu niē jiǎo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jai1 sau2 nip6 geuk3
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