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混水摸鱼
hún​shuǐ​mō​yú

exploit a crisis

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
混水摸鱼 (混水摸魚) hún​shuǐ​mō​yú
exploit a crisis expression
to fish in troubled water; to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.060 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.326 per million

Cross-References

Same as

  • 浑水摸鱼

Sources

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