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借故
jiè​gù

to find an excuse

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
借故 jiè//gù
variant 藉故
to find an excuse
To find a reason or pretext to do something; also used to describe doing something under a false reason.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.090 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.906 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)