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浇冷水
jiāo​lěng​shuǐ

discourage

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
浇冷水 (澆冷水) jiāo​lěng​shuǐ
discourage
to dampen enthusiasm or discourage someone's interest in something
pour cold water
to literally pour cold water on someone or something

Frequency

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0.031 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)