herky-jerky
笨手笨脚,笨手笨脚的,笨手笨脚的人,笨笨的
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- : progressing in a fitfully jerky or irregular manner: a herky-jerky home movie shown on an old projector.
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They became so brown and shriveled that they looked like walking beef jerky with New York accents.
You, too, will be zipping along to the angular guitars and zigzagging, herky-jerky vocals.
He's so white he's almost mock-white, and so are his jerky, long-necked, mechanical-man movements.
I sent him some caribou jerky from Alaska to help keep up his strength on the Senate floor.
It was superficial and jumpy and herky-jerky, bopping all over the place.
Each sentence came as if torn piecemeal from his unwilling tongue; short, jerky phrases, conceived in pain and delivered in agony.
Nervous and jerky he walked to the center of the stage, and raised his hand begging silence.
With jerky motions the black monster drew down, the water rippling and gurgling along the sides.
He knocked the ashes from his cigar and threw out his arms with one of his odd, jerky gestures.
He spoke in very fair language, short, jerky sentences, but well-chosen words.