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放空炮
fàng​kōng​pào

to spout hot air

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
放空炮 fàng//kōng​pào
to spout hot air
(literal) to fire blank shots; (figurative) to talk big, make empty promises, or be all talk and no action; to spout hot air

Frequency

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

Cross-References

Referenced by

  • 空炮 kōng​pào

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)