未雨绸缪 wèiyǔchóumóu prepare Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 未雨绸缪 (未雨綢繆) wèiyǔchóumóu prepare idiom to plan ahead or prepare for a rainy day; to take precautions before trouble strikes bind silk idiom the literal meaning from the Book of Songs: to bind window and door frames with silk before it rains Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 0.750 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.71 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
未雨绸缪 (未雨綢繆) wèiyǔchóumóu prepare idiom to plan ahead or prepare for a rainy day; to take precautions before trouble strikes bind silk idiom the literal meaning from the Book of Songs: to bind window and door frames with silk before it rains Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Movie subtitles 0.750 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.71 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)