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放空炮
fàng​kōng​pào

empty talk

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
放空炮 fàng​kōng​pào
empty talk
to be all talk and no action, make empty promises, or boast without following through
fire blanks
to fire blank shots or shoot at nothing

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.060 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.069 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)