失之交臂
Traditional form:
失之交臂
Pinyin (reading):
shīzhījiāobì
Definitions:
- to miss narrowly
- to let a great opportunity slip
Characters:
- 失 - to lose; to make a mistake, to neglect
- 之 - marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; to go to
- 交 - to connect; to deliver, to exchange; to intersect; to mix
- 臂 - arm
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