投袂而起 Save Sign in to save words tóumèiérqǐ ㄊㄡˊ ㄇㄟˋ ㄦˊ ㄑㄧˇ lit. to shake one's sleeves and rise (idiom) fig. to get excited and move to action Character by character 投(tóu)throw 袂(mèi)sleeve of a robe 而(ér)and 起(qǐ)rise A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0