máng cì zài bèi

芒刺在背 (máng cì zài bèi) is a Chinese word meaning “feeling brambles and thorns in one's back (idiom); uneasy and nervous; to be on pins and needles”.

Meanings

  1. 1feeling brambles and thorns in one's back (idiom)
  2. 2uneasy and nervous
  3. 3to be on pins and needles

Characters in 芒刺在背

芒máng · awn (of cereals)刺cī · (onom.) whoosh在zài · to exist; to be alive背bēi · to carry on one's back

Related words

在to exist; to be alive现在now; at present; currently正在to be in the process of (doing sth); to be currently ...-ing存在to exist实在really不在乎not to care背to carry on one's back背the back of a body or object背variant of 背[bei1]在乎to rest with; to lie in; to be due to (a certain attribute)背叛to betray刺(onom.) whoosh

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