偃旗息鼓 yǎnqíxīgǔ cease Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 偃旗息鼓 yǎnqíxīgǔ cease idiom to stop an activity, campaign, or project, often to avoid notice or following a failure (literally by lowering flags and silencing drums) give in idiom to stop an argument, fight, or effort and concede defeat or withdraw Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.690 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
偃旗息鼓 yǎnqíxīgǔ cease idiom to stop an activity, campaign, or project, often to avoid notice or following a failure (literally by lowering flags and silencing drums) give in idiom to stop an argument, fight, or effort and concede defeat or withdraw Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.690 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
