词组 | my/one's hands are tied |
释义 | (redirected from my/one's hands are tied)someone's hands are tiedFig. someone is not able to help or intervene. (See also .) I'm sorry. There's nothing I can do. My hands are tied. hands are tied, my/one'sNot free to act. This metaphor became common after the mid-seventeenth century. An early appearance in print was in clergyman Thomas Fuller’s The Holy State and the Profane State (1642): “When God intends a Nation shall be beaten, He ties their hands behind them.” |
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