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狐狸尾巴
hú​li​wěi​ba

to reveal one's true colors

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
狐狸尾巴 hú​li​wěi​ba
to reveal one's true colors
literally "fox's tail", referring to a visible sign of evil intentions or the evidence that reveals someone's bad nature

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.330 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.227 per million

Cross-References

Classifier

  • 条 tiáo

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)