捉襟见肘 zhuōjīnjiànzhǒu impecunious Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 捉襟见肘 (捉襟見肘) zhuōjīnjiànzhǒu impecunious idiom Short of money and unable to make ends meet. overstretched idiom Facing a situation where resources are insufficient to meet demands; having too many difficulties to handle at once (literally pulling on the lapels and exposing the elbows). Frequency Movie subtitles 0.180 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.53 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
捉襟见肘 (捉襟見肘) zhuōjīnjiànzhǒu impecunious idiom Short of money and unable to make ends meet. overstretched idiom Facing a situation where resources are insufficient to meet demands; having too many difficulties to handle at once (literally pulling on the lapels and exposing the elbows). Frequency Movie subtitles 0.180 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.53 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
