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火中取栗
huǒ​zhōng​qǔ​lì

cat's-paw

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
火中取栗 huǒ​zhōng​qǔ​lì
cat's-paw idiom
to take a risk for another person's benefit; to be used by someone else to do their dangerous work

Frequency

Written text
0.121 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)