借题发挥 jiètífāhuī to seize on a theme Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 借题发挥 借題發揮 jiètífāhuī to seize on a theme To use the current topic or a specific incident as a pretext to express one's true intentions or personal views; to make a fuss over something to serve one's own agenda. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.060 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.454 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
借题发挥 借題發揮 jiètífāhuī to seize on a theme To use the current topic or a specific incident as a pretext to express one's true intentions or personal views; to make a fuss over something to serve one's own agenda. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.060 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.454 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
