借题发挥 jiètífāhuī expound Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 借题发挥 (借題發揮) jiètífāhuī expound expression to use a current topic as a starting point to express or elaborate on one's own ideas seize pretext expression to use an incident or topic as a pretext to make a fuss or vent one's feelings Frequency Movie subtitles 0.060 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.454 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
借题发挥 (借題發揮) jiètífāhuī expound expression to use a current topic as a starting point to express or elaborate on one's own ideas seize pretext expression to use an incident or topic as a pretext to make a fuss or vent one's feelings Frequency Movie subtitles 0.060 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.454 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)