悬崖勒马 xuányálèmǎ stop on brink Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 悬崖勒马 (懸崖勒馬) xuányálèmǎ stop on brink idiom to desist from a dangerous course of action just before disaster strikes; to pull back or act in the nick of time to avoid a catastrophe Frequency Movie subtitles 0.180 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.355 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
悬崖勒马 (懸崖勒馬) xuányálèmǎ stop on brink idiom to desist from a dangerous course of action just before disaster strikes; to pull back or act in the nick of time to avoid a catastrophe Frequency Movie subtitles 0.180 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.355 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
