掏腰包 tāoyāobāo to pay out of one's own pocket Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 掏腰包 tāo//yāobāo to pay out of one's own pocket verb + noun to foot the bill; to pay for something with one's own money 他自己掏腰包出版了那本书。 tā zìjǐ tāo yāobāo chūbǎn le nà běn shū. He published the book at his own expense. to pick pockets to steal from someone's pocket or purse Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 1.01 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.919 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
掏腰包 tāo//yāobāo to pay out of one's own pocket verb + noun to foot the bill; to pay for something with one's own money 他自己掏腰包出版了那本书。 tā zìjǐ tāo yāobāo chūbǎn le nà běn shū. He published the book at his own expense. to pick pockets to steal from someone's pocket or purse Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 1.01 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.919 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
