脚踏两条船 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 腳踏兩條船 jiǎotàliǎngtiáochuán ㄐㄧㄠˇ ㄊㄚˋ ㄌㄧㄤˇ ㄊㄧㄠˊ ㄔㄨㄢˊ lit. to stand with each foot in a different boat (idiom) fig. to have it both ways to run after two hares to have two lovers at the same time especially Character by character 脚(jiǎo)foot 踏(tà)tread 两(liǎng)two 条(tiáo)strip 船(chuán)boat A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0