手無縛雞之力

1. • lacking the strength even to truss a chicken (saying)

     lit.

2. • weak unaccustomed to physical work

     fig.

Character by character

• 手(shǒu)hand
• 無(wú)not to have
• 縛(fù)bind
• 雞(jī)fowl
• 之(zhī)(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de)
• 力(lì)surname Li