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交臂失之
jiāo​bì​shī​zhī

to miss narrowly

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
交臂失之 jiāo​bì​shī​zhī
to miss narrowly
To miss someone by a narrow chance; to let an opportunity slip through one's fingers.

Frequency

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0.004 per million

Cross-References

Same as

  • 失之交臂 shī​zhī​jiāo​bì

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)