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反唇相讥
fǎn​chún​xiāng​jī

to answer back sarcastically

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
反唇相讥 反唇相譏 fǎn​chún​xiāng​jī
variant 反脣相譏
to answer back sarcastically
(idiom) to retort or answer back sarcastically when criticized; to turn a reproach back on one's accuser

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.120 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.373 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)