Results for “腰”

middle / halfway

to put one's hands on one's hips

to bend

apron

(bird species of China) house swift (Apus nipalensis)

slim feminine waist / willow waist (from the name of a Tang dynasty woman Xiao Man, famed for her slender waist)

the mid-slope of a mountain

to bow / to bend at the waist

slouch / stoop / poor posture

lower back / (sports) defensive midfielder

a stretch (of one's body)

to sway one's hips / to twist one's waist

to bend at the waist / to bow / (fig.) to bow to / to submit

lit. a hair plucked from (person A) would be thicker than (person B)'s waist (idiom) / fig. A is far richer (or more powerful) than B / (used in a pattern such as A拔根汗毛比B的腰粗[A ba2 gen1 han4 mao2 bi3 B de5 yao1 cu1])

to straighten one's back / to arch one's back

harness pad (on draft animal)

(hitting) squarely in the middle / (slicing) across the middle / to hold by the waist

(bird species of China) striated swallow (Cecropis striolata)

(Tw) (publishing) belly band (paper sash around a book, outside the dust jacket)

girdle

slender and supple waist / lithe body / feminine pose

(bird species of China) lemon-rumped warbler (Phylloscopus chloronotus)

(allusion to Tao Qian 陶潛|陶潜[Táo Qián], who used this phrase when he resigned from government service rather than show subservience to a visiting inspector) to bow and scrape for five pecks of rice (that being a part of his salary as a local magistrate) / (fig.) to compromise one's principles for the sake of a salary

waist of a bear and back of a tiger / tough and stocky build

(bird species of China) Leach's storm petrel (Hydrobates leucorhous)

(bird species of China) white-rumped munia (Lonchura striata)

(bird species of China) common redpoll (Acanthis flammea)

(bird species of China) Eurasian curlew (Numenius arquata)

(bird species of China) white-rumped sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis)

(bird species of China) Aleutian tern (Onychoprion aleuticus)

(bird species of China) green sandpiper (Tringa ochropus)

(bird species of China) white-rumped snowfinch (Onychostruthus taczanowskii)

(bird species of China) white-rumped shama (Copsychus malabaricus)

(saying) it's all very well to talk, but getting things done is another matter / (fig.) to be an armchair expert / to blabber on

isosceles triangle

(bird species of China) red-mantled rosefinch (Carpodacus rhodochlamys)

slender waist / fig. pretty woman / mortise and tenon joint on a coffin

slender waistline

tall and strong / burly / beefy

to pay out of one's own pocket / to dig into one's pocket