上梁不正下梁歪 shàngliángbùzhèngxiàliángwāi bad example Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 上梁不正下梁歪 shàngliángbùzhèngxiàliángwāi bad example verb lit. if the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked; fig. subordinates imitate their superiors' vices Frequency Movie subtitles 0.120 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.172 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
上梁不正下梁歪 shàngliángbùzhèngxiàliángwāi bad example verb lit. if the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked; fig. subordinates imitate their superiors' vices Frequency Movie subtitles 0.120 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.172 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)