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撂挑子
liào​tiāo​zi

to quit in a huff

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
撂挑子 liào//tiāo​zi
to quit in a huff
(colloquial) to quit one's job in disgust; to throw down the burden and abandon one's responsibilities
to die
(slang) to pass away; to kick the bucket

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.150 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.155 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)