失之交臂 shīzhījiāobì lose opportunity Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 失之交臂 shīzhījiāobì lose opportunity idiom to let a great opportunity, chance, or prize slip through one's fingers miss narrowly idiom to miss meeting someone or finding something by a very narrow margin, often physically passing by each other Frequency Movie subtitles 0.600 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.21 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
失之交臂 shīzhījiāobì lose opportunity idiom to let a great opportunity, chance, or prize slip through one's fingers miss narrowly idiom to miss meeting someone or finding something by a very narrow margin, often physically passing by each other Frequency Movie subtitles 0.600 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.21 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
