脚踏两条船
Traditional form:
腳踏兩條船
Pinyin (reading):
jiǎotàliǎngtiáochuán
Definitions:
- lit. to stand with each foot in a different boat (idiom)
- fig. to have it both ways
- to run after two hares
- (especially) to have two lovers at the same time
Characters:
- 脚 - leg, foot; foundation, base
- 踏 - to trample, to tread on, to walk over
- 两 - two, both, pair, couple; ounce
- 条 - clause, condition; string, stripe
- 船 - ship, boat, vessel
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