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