80001463-v 'can't do anything about it (takkur)';
 
Japanese 手も足も出せない , 手も足も出ない
Definitions
English
can't do anything about it (takkur)
can't deal with it (takkur)
I counld't do anything at all about the sudden attack
Japanese
それに対して何もできない (takkur)
それに対処できない (takkur)
いきなりの襲撃にまったく手も足も出なかった
Relations
Hypernym: be
Similar to: helpless powerless
Semantic Field: unknown
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takkur (2016-04-18 07:14:50)

手(noun)+も(postposition)+足(noun)+も(postposition)+出せ(verb)+ない(negative); the conjugation part is "ない".; "手も足も" is fixed.; this idiom may be adjective.;

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