冰冻三尺 bīngdòngsānchǐ ice three feet deep Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 冰冻三尺 (冰凍三尺) bīngdòngsānchǐ ice three feet deep idiom literally 'ice three feet thick'; used metaphorically to mean that a state of affairs has not come about suddenly, but is the result of long-term accumulation or development. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.090 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.062 per million Sources Definitions AI-generated definitions Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
冰冻三尺 (冰凍三尺) bīngdòngsānchǐ ice three feet deep idiom literally 'ice three feet thick'; used metaphorically to mean that a state of affairs has not come about suddenly, but is the result of long-term accumulation or development. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.090 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.062 per million Sources Definitions AI-generated definitions Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)