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隔靴掻痒

かっかそうよう, かくかそうようkakkasouyou

noun

  1. being frustrated because something is not quite as hoped (just as one cannot scratch an itch from outside a shoe)
  2. having an itch that one cannot scratch

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Data from JMdict, KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG), KanjiVG, CC-CEDICT and Make Me a Hanzi. Sources and licences