袖手旁观
xiùshǒu-pángguān
Meaning
- to watch with folded arms (idiom); to look on without lifting a finger
Example
只要好人袖手旁观，恶人就会得胜。
As long as good people do nothing, evil will triumph.
Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).
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