穿小鞋
chuān​xiǎo​xié HSK7

to make life difficult for someone

穿小鞋 chuān//xiǎo​xié
to make life difficult for someone
(idiom) to make things hard for someone by abusing one's power, specifically through petty obstacles or secret retaliation; literally "to wear tight shoes"

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

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7

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Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)