偷鸡不着蚀把米 tōujībùzháoshíbǎmǐ to go for wool and come back shorn Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 偷鸡不着蚀把米 偷雞不著蝕把米 tōujībùzháoshíbǎmǐ to go for wool and come back shorn To try to gain an advantage only to end up worse off; literally to try to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it. Frequency Written text 0.023 per million Cross-References Variant of 偷鸡不着反折一把米 tōujībùzháofǎnzhéyībǎmǐ Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
偷鸡不着蚀把米 偷雞不著蝕把米 tōujībùzháoshíbǎmǐ to go for wool and come back shorn To try to gain an advantage only to end up worse off; literally to try to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it. Frequency Written text 0.023 per million Cross-References Variant of 偷鸡不着反折一把米 tōujībùzháofǎnzhéyībǎmǐ Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
