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引蛇出洞
yǐn​shé​chū​dòng

to lure the snake out of its hole

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
引蛇出洞 yǐn​shé​chū​dòng
to lure the snake out of its hole
To use bait or a clever trick to entice an enemy or a wrongdoer out of their hiding place.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.270 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.179 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)