病入膏肓 bìngrùgāohuāng terminally ill Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 病入膏肓 bìngrùgāohuāng terminally ill describing a disease that has advanced to an incurable stage, having reached the vitals (the area between the heart and diaphragm) beyond cure metaphorically describing a situation or problem that has become hopeless or impossible to save Frequency Movie subtitles 0.980 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.568 per million Cross-References Referenced by 膏肓 gāohuāng膏肓之疾 gāohuāngzhījí Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
病入膏肓 bìngrùgāohuāng terminally ill describing a disease that has advanced to an incurable stage, having reached the vitals (the area between the heart and diaphragm) beyond cure metaphorically describing a situation or problem that has become hopeless or impossible to save Frequency Movie subtitles 0.980 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.568 per million Cross-References Referenced by 膏肓 gāohuāng膏肓之疾 gāohuāngzhījí Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
