投鼠忌器 tóushǔjìqì exercise restraint Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 投鼠忌器 tóushǔjìqì exercise restraint idiom To refrain from taking action against a wrongdoer or an evil for fear of harming innocent people or damaging something valuable. Frequency Written text 0.279 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
投鼠忌器 tóushǔjìqì exercise restraint idiom To refrain from taking action against a wrongdoer or an evil for fear of harming innocent people or damaging something valuable. Frequency Written text 0.279 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
