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溜须拍马
liū​xū​pāi​mǎ

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Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
溜须拍马 (溜鬚拍馬) liū​xū​pāi​mǎ
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to use excessive flattery or fawning to gain favor or advantage; to bootlick (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

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