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砸锅卖铁
zá​guō​mài​tiě

to sacrifice one's all

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
砸锅卖铁 砸鍋賣鐵 zá​guō​mài​tiě
to sacrifice one's all
to be willing to sacrifice or use up everything one has in order to achieve a goal; literally "smash the cooking pot and sell the iron"

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.090 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.310 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)