打退堂鼓 dǎtuìtánggǔ to give up Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 打退堂鼓 dǎ//tuìtánggǔ to give up (idiom) to give up midway; to back out of a commitment; to lose heart and quit to beat the return drum (literary) to beat a drum to signal the end of a court session in ancient government offices Frequency Movie subtitles 0.780 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.363 per million Cross-References Synonym 敲退堂鼓 qiāotuìtánggǔ Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
打退堂鼓 dǎ//tuìtánggǔ to give up (idiom) to give up midway; to back out of a commitment; to lose heart and quit to beat the return drum (literary) to beat a drum to signal the end of a court session in ancient government offices Frequency Movie subtitles 0.780 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.363 per million Cross-References Synonym 敲退堂鼓 qiāotuìtánggǔ Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
