袖 袖
手 手
旁 旁
观 觀
- to watch with folded arms (idiom); to look on without lifting a finger
Examples
你要是不答应的话，我就袖手旁观。
只要好人袖手旁观，恶人就会得胜。
Info
- Wiktionary: 袖手旁观
- MDBG: 袖手旁观
- Examples with 袖手旁观 on Tatoeba
- Percentile: 6 (higher is more common)
- Tags: chengyu