望梅止渴 wàngméizhǐkě console oneself Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 望梅止渴 wàngméizhǐkě console oneself idiom to console oneself with illusions or false hopes when the reality is unavailable quench thirst idiom to quench one's thirst by thinking of plums (original idiom meaning) Frequency Written text 0.222 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
望梅止渴 wàngméizhǐkě console oneself idiom to console oneself with illusions or false hopes when the reality is unavailable quench thirst idiom to quench one's thirst by thinking of plums (original idiom meaning) Frequency Written text 0.222 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
