打草惊蛇 dǎcǎojīngshé to alert an enemy Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 打草惊蛇 打草驚蛇 dǎcǎojīngshé to alert an enemy (idiom) lit. beat the grass and scare the snake; fig. to unintentionally alert an opponent through careless actions, allowing them to prepare in advance to warn others (idiom) to punish or reprimand one person as a warning to another Frequency Movie subtitles 1.49 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.696 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
打草惊蛇 打草驚蛇 dǎcǎojīngshé to alert an enemy (idiom) lit. beat the grass and scare the snake; fig. to unintentionally alert an opponent through careless actions, allowing them to prepare in advance to warn others (idiom) to punish or reprimand one person as a warning to another Frequency Movie subtitles 1.49 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.696 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
