"Arms akimbo" nghĩa là gì?


"Arms akimbo" -> nghĩa là tư thế đứng chống nạnh.

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There are some movie titles you can’t say with a straight face, and Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse is one of them. It’s a title with all the swagger of a 200-page contract (hợp đồng) heavy with riders, an appellation (tên gọi) that stands, arms akimbo, in defiance of Pee-wee Herman’s dictum “That’s my name, don’t wear it out.” Every time you say it, an angel dressed like a Navy SEAL gets its wings.

She wears a too-short Puma crop top, with a matching sports bra underneath (ở dưới). Even as she dances with delightful abandon, her arms akimbo, she offers us very generous peek (liếc nhìn) of what lies beneath.

One he saw had two handles (tay cầm) reminiscent (gợi nhớ) of a woman’s form, with arms akimbo and rested on broad hips (eo) and it inspired Koraichi to create a vase with four handles that would combine male and female sorrows.

According to the 11th edition of the Chambers Dictionary (2008), akimbo means “with hand on hip and elbow out”. Such a definition explains why just about the only thing that can be akimbo is arms, and until recently the word occurred almost exclusively in the phrase with arms akimbo.

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