打退堂鼓 dǎtuìtánggǔ give up Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 打退堂鼓 dǎtuìtánggǔ give up idiom To back out of a commitment or give up halfway; to turn tail when facing difficulties. beat return drum expression Literally beating the drum to signal the end of a court session in imperial China. Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 0.780 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.363 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
打退堂鼓 dǎtuìtánggǔ give up idiom To back out of a commitment or give up halfway; to turn tail when facing difficulties. beat return drum expression Literally beating the drum to signal the end of a court session in imperial China. Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 0.780 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.363 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
