望梅止渴 wàngméizhǐkě to console oneself with illusions Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 望梅止渴 wàngméizhǐkě to console oneself with illusions To quench one's thirst by thinking of plums; to comfort oneself with empty hopes or unrealistic fantasies when a wish cannot be realized. Frequency Written text 0.222 per million Cross-References Synonym 画饼充饥 huàbǐngchōngjī Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
望梅止渴 wàngméizhǐkě to console oneself with illusions To quench one's thirst by thinking of plums; to comfort oneself with empty hopes or unrealistic fantasies when a wish cannot be realized. Frequency Written text 0.222 per million Cross-References Synonym 画饼充饥 huàbǐngchōngjī Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
