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枯鱼之肆
kū​yú​zhī​sì

dire straits

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
枯鱼之肆 枯魚之肆 kū​yú​zhī​sì
dire straits
Used to describe someone in extreme distress or a desperate situation, like a fish out of water in a dried fish shop; often appears in the phrase 索我于枯鱼之肆 suǒ​wǒ​yú​kū​yú​zhī​sì

Frequency

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0.001 per million

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)