弄巧成拙 nòngqiǎochéngzhuō to outsmart oneself Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 弄巧成拙 nòngqiǎochéngzhuō to outsmart oneself to try to be clever and end up making things worse; to overreach oneself and fail; to end up with egg on one's face Frequency Movie subtitles 0.360 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.577 per million Cross-References Synonym 画蛇添足 huàshétiānzú Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
弄巧成拙 nòngqiǎochéngzhuō to outsmart oneself to try to be clever and end up making things worse; to overreach oneself and fail; to end up with egg on one's face Frequency Movie subtitles 0.360 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.577 per million Cross-References Synonym 画蛇添足 huàshétiānzú Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
