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To master Chinese, begin with characters, move to words, and then idioms. Here’s the idiom 「縮手縮腳」 explained, free of charge.

Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「縮手縮腳」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

The limbs cannot be stretched due to the cold. It also describes being timid, having many concerns, and not daring to let go.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

suō shǒu suō jiǎo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

suk1 sau2 suk1 geuk3

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