破釜沉舟 pòfǔchénzhōu burn one's boats Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 破釜沉舟 pòfǔchénzhōu burn one's boats idiom to cut off one's means of retreat to show determination; to commit oneself fully to a course of action by making withdrawal impossible Frequency Movie subtitles 0.240 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.655 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
破釜沉舟 pòfǔchénzhōu burn one's boats idiom to cut off one's means of retreat to show determination; to commit oneself fully to a course of action by making withdrawal impossible Frequency Movie subtitles 0.240 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.655 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)