事与愿违 shìyǔyuànwéi backfire Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 事与愿违 (事與願違) shìyǔyuànwéi backfire idiom things turn out contrary to the way one wishes 我本想帮他，结果却事与愿违，反而让事情更糟了。 wǒ běn xiǎng bāng tā, jiéguǒ què shìyǔyuànwéi, fǎn'ér ràng shìqing gèng zāo le. I intended to help him, but it backfired and I ended up making matters worse. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.22 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 1.44 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
事与愿违 (事與願違) shìyǔyuànwéi backfire idiom things turn out contrary to the way one wishes 我本想帮他，结果却事与愿违，反而让事情更糟了。 wǒ běn xiǎng bāng tā, jiéguǒ què shìyǔyuànwéi, fǎn'ér ràng shìqing gèng zāo le. I intended to help him, but it backfired and I ended up making matters worse. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.22 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 1.44 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
