先声夺人 xiānshēngduórén to gain the upper hand by a show of strength Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 先声夺人 先聲奪人 xiānshēngduórén to gain the upper hand by a show of strength to overawe or intimidate others by making an impressive display of one's strength or momentum before they can act; to steal a march on someone Frequency Movie subtitles 0.120 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.775 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
先声夺人 先聲奪人 xiānshēngduórén to gain the upper hand by a show of strength to overawe or intimidate others by making an impressive display of one's strength or momentum before they can act; to steal a march on someone Frequency Movie subtitles 0.120 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.775 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
