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芒刺在背
máng cì zài bèi
What 芒刺在背 means
- feeling brambles and thorns in one's back (idiom)
- uneasy and nervous
- to be on pins and needles
The characters in 芒刺在背
- 芒mángawn (of cereals); arista (of grain); tip (of a blade)
- 刺cìthorn; sting; thrust
- 在zàito exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at…
- 背bèithe back of a body or object; to turn one's back; to hide something from
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