to hold between the thumb and fingers / to pinch / to mold (using the fingers) / to hold (lit. in one's hand and fig.) / to join together / to fabricate (a story, a report, etc)
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to make up / to fabricate
affecting shyness or embarrassment / coy / mincing (walk, manner of speech) / mannered
fabrication relying on nothing (idiom) / frame-up
to break out into a cold sweat (idiom)
to break out into a cold sweat (idiom)
to act as a go-between
to act as a go between
to crush (sth) in one's hand
see 捏脊[]
form of therapeutic massage, mainly for children, in which a roll of skin is squeezed, working from the base of the spine to the neck (TCM)
chiropractic (medicine)
affecting shyness or embarrassment / coy / mincing (walk, manner of speech) / mannered
(lit. and fig.) to grasp / to control / (dialect) affecting shyness / coy / (dialect) to deliberately create difficulties / to threaten
lit. it's the soft persimmons that people choose to squeeze (idiom) / fig. it's the weak (i.e. 軟柿子|软柿子[]) who get picked on / bullies pick soft targets
to make an accusation based on fabricated evidence (idiom)
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