偷鸡不成蚀把米 tōujībùchéngshíbǎmǐ to suffer a loss instead of making a gain Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 偷鸡不成蚀把米 偷雞不成蝕把米 tōujībùchéngshíbǎmǐ to suffer a loss instead of making a gain literally meaning to try to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it; used to describe trying to gain an advantage but ending up worse off Frequency Written text 0.087 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
偷鸡不成蚀把米 偷雞不成蝕把米 tōujībùchéngshíbǎmǐ to suffer a loss instead of making a gain literally meaning to try to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it; used to describe trying to gain an advantage but ending up worse off Frequency Written text 0.087 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
