打擺子

1. • to suffer from malaria

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Character by character

• 打(dǎ)a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings
• 擺(bǎi)arrange
• 子(zi)noun suffix, as in 椅子 yǐzi "chair"