白baak6手sau2

English

1. empty-handed; start with nothing (spoken)
2. with empty handed; to start from nothing (literally: white hands)unreviewed?

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 兩手空空；又比喻由零開始。unreviewed?

Examples

• 林肯總統就是我們所謂白手起家的男人。

  President Lincoln was what we call a self-made man.

  Tatoeba · tsayng CC BY

• unreviewed?

  白手興家

  start empty-handed; build up from nothing

• unreviewed?

  白手奪刀