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一言以蔽之
yī​yán​yǐ​bì​zhī

to sum up in a word

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一言以蔽之 yī​yán​yǐ​bì​zhī
to sum up in a word
to sum up in a single sentence; in a nutshell; to cut a long story short; this idiom comes from the "Analects of Confucius"

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0.426 per million

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Frequency data
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