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溜须拍马
liū​xū​pāi​mǎ

to flatter

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
溜须拍马 溜鬚拍馬 liū​xū​pāi​mǎ
to flatter
(idiom) to fawn on or shamelessly flatter someone; literally "to smooth whiskers and pat a horse's bottom"

Frequency

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

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)