不胫而走 bùjìng'érzǒu to spread like wildfire Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 不胫而走 不脛而走 bùjìng'érzǒu to spread like wildfire to spread rapidly (of news or rumors) or become popular without promotion to disappear without a trace to go missing or be stolen unexpectedly (of an object) Frequency Movie subtitles 0.150 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.725 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
不胫而走 不脛而走 bùjìng'érzǒu to spread like wildfire to spread rapidly (of news or rumors) or become popular without promotion to disappear without a trace to go missing or be stolen unexpectedly (of an object) Frequency Movie subtitles 0.150 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.725 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)