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欲擒故纵
yù​qín​gù​zòng

strategic release

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
欲擒故纵 (欲擒故縱) yù​qín​gù​zòng
strategic release idiom
To deliberately let someone go or relax control in order to better capture or control them later.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.860 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.395 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)