挖空心思 wākōngxīnsi to rack one's brains Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 挖空心思 wākōng//xīnsi to rack one's brains to rack one's brains; to think of every possible way to do something, often used in a negative sense to describe scheming or using calculated effort Frequency Movie subtitles 0.210 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.853 per million Cross-References Synonym 绞尽脑汁 jiǎojìnnǎozhī呕心沥血 ǒuxīnlìxuè煞费苦心 shàfèikǔxīn Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
挖空心思 wākōng//xīnsi to rack one's brains to rack one's brains; to think of every possible way to do something, often used in a negative sense to describe scheming or using calculated effort Frequency Movie subtitles 0.210 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.853 per million Cross-References Synonym 绞尽脑汁 jiǎojìnnǎozhī呕心沥血 ǒuxīnlìxuè煞费苦心 shàfèikǔxīn Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
