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找台阶
zhǎo​tái​jiē

to find an out

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
找台阶 找臺階 zhǎo//tái​jiē
to find an out
To find an excuse or a way out of an embarrassing situation to save face.

Frequency

Written text
0.099 per million

Cross-References

Variant of

  • 找台阶下 zhǎo​tái​jiē​xià

Has erhua variant

  • 找台阶儿 zhǎo​tái​jiē​r

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)