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磨刀霍霍
mó​dāo​huò​huò

preparing to attack

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
磨刀霍霍 mó​dāo​huò​huò
preparing to attack idiom
to get ready for battle or a confrontation
sharpening
to sharpen one's sword or knife, often describing the rhythmic sound of the action

Frequency

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

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)