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吓一跳
xià​yī​tiào

to be startled

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
吓一跳 嚇一跳 xià//yī​tiào
to be startled verb + noun
to be startled or to receive a sudden fright; to jump with fear

几年前妈妈吓了我们一跳。

jǐ nián qián mā​ma xià le wǒ​men yī​tiào.

Mother gave us a scare a couple of years ago.

Frequency

Written text
1.91 per million

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)