债台高筑 zhàitáigāozhù to be mired in debt Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 债台高筑 債臺高築 zhàitáigāozhù to be mired in debt to be heavily in debt; to be debt-ridden; literally to build a high platform of debt, referencing a king from the Warring States period who hid on a high platform to avoid his creditors Frequency Movie subtitles 0.240 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.511 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
债台高筑 債臺高築 zhàitáigāozhù to be mired in debt to be heavily in debt; to be debt-ridden; literally to build a high platform of debt, referencing a king from the Warring States period who hid on a high platform to avoid his creditors Frequency Movie subtitles 0.240 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.511 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
