出其不意 chūqíbùyì to take someone by surprise Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 出其不意 chūqíbùyì to take someone by surprise to act when the other party is least expecting it (idiom); to catch someone off guard Frequency Movie subtitles 1.70 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 1.56 per million Cross-References Synonym 攻其无备 gōngqíwúbèi Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
出其不意 chūqíbùyì to take someone by surprise to act when the other party is least expecting it (idiom); to catch someone off guard Frequency Movie subtitles 1.70 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 1.56 per million Cross-References Synonym 攻其无备 gōngqíwúbèi Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
