胳膊拧不过大腿 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 胳膊擰不過大腿 gēbonǐngbuguòdàtuǐ ㄍㄜ ˙ㄅㄛ ㄋㄧㄥˇ ˙ㄅㄨ ㄍㄨㄛˋ ㄉㄚˋ ㄊㄨㄟˇ the weak cannot overcome the strong idiom Character by character 胳(gē)armpit 膊(bo)shoulder 拧(nǐng)mistake 不(bu)no 过(guò)cross 大(dà)big 腿(tuǐ)leg A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0