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坐以待毙
zuò​yǐ​dài​bì

to await death

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
坐以待毙 坐以待斃 zuò​yǐ​dài​bì
to await death
to sit and wait for death; resigned to one's fate without taking action to save oneself

Frequency

Movie subtitles
2.21 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
0.630 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)