望尘莫及 wàngchénmòjí far inferior; too late to catch up Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 望尘莫及 望塵莫及 wàngchénmòjí far inferior; too late to catch up Literally meaning to see only the dust from the rider ahead and have no hope of catching up; used to describe being so far behind that one cannot compete or that it is too late to act Frequency Movie subtitles 0.270 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.979 per million Cross-References Same as 望尘不及 wàngchénbùjíSynonym 瞠乎其后 chēnghūqíhòuAntonym 迎头赶上 yíngtóugǎnshàngReferenced by 莫 mò Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
望尘莫及 望塵莫及 wàngchénmòjí far inferior; too late to catch up Literally meaning to see only the dust from the rider ahead and have no hope of catching up; used to describe being so far behind that one cannot compete or that it is too late to act Frequency Movie subtitles 0.270 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.979 per million Cross-References Same as 望尘不及 wàngchénbùjíSynonym 瞠乎其后 chēnghūqíhòuAntonym 迎头赶上 yíngtóugǎnshàngReferenced by 莫 mò Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)