交臂失之 Save Sign in to save words jiāobìshīzhī ㄐㄧㄠ ㄅㄧˋ ㄕ ㄓ to miss sb by a narrow chance to miss an opportunity Character by character 交(jiāo)hand over 臂(bì)arm 失(shī)lose 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de) A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0