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因噎废食
yīn​yē​fèi​shí

over-caution

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
因噎废食 (因噎廢食) yīn​yē​fèi​shí
over-caution idiom
to avoid or abandon something essential because of a slight risk or minor problem; to cut off one's nose to spite one's face

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.060 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.388 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)