投鼠忌器 tóushǔjìqì to hesitate for fear of unintended harm Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 投鼠忌器 tóushǔjìqì to hesitate for fear of unintended harm To refrain from taking action against an evil person or problem because of the risk of harming innocent people or valuable things nearby; literally to hesitate at throwing something at a rat for fear of breaking the vase it is next to. Frequency Written text 0.279 per million Cross-References Variant of 掷鼠忌器 zhìshǔjìqì Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
投鼠忌器 tóushǔjìqì to hesitate for fear of unintended harm To refrain from taking action against an evil person or problem because of the risk of harming innocent people or valuable things nearby; literally to hesitate at throwing something at a rat for fear of breaking the vase it is next to. Frequency Written text 0.279 per million Cross-References Variant of 掷鼠忌器 zhìshǔjìqì Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
