芒刺在背 Save Sign in to save words mángcìzàibèi ㄇㄤˊ ㄘˋ ㄗㄞˋ ㄅㄟˋ feeling brambles and thorns in one's back (idiom) uneasy and nervous to be on pins and needles Character by character 芒(máng)awn 刺(cì)thorn 在(zài)exist 背(bèi)the back of a body or object A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0