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卖关子
mài​guān​zi

keep guessing

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
卖关子 (賣關子) mài​guān​zi
keep guessing expression
to deliberately withhold information to keep people in suspense or on tenterhooks in general situations
suspense verb
to stop at a critical point in storytelling to keep the audience in suspense

Frequency

Written text
0.326 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)