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一言难尽
yī​yán​nán​jìn

it's a long story

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
一言难尽 一言難盡 yī​yán​nán​jìn
it's a long story
(idiom) hard to explain in a few words; describes a situation that is complicated and difficult to express succinctly

Frequency

Movie subtitles
1.07 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
0.483 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)