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息事宁人
xī​shì​níng​rén

keep the peace

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
息事宁人 (息事寧人) xī​shì​níng​rén
keep the peace idiom
to settle a dispute and restore peace; to patch up a quarrel

Frequency

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

Sources

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