竭泽而渔 jiézé'éryú to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 竭泽而渔 竭澤而漁 jiézé'éryú to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs To drain a pond to catch all the fish; describes taking everything for immediate gain without thinking of the future. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.197 per million Cross-References Same as 涸泽而渔 hézé'éryúSynonym 杀鸡取卵 shājīqǔluǎn Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
竭泽而渔 竭澤而漁 jiézé'éryú to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs To drain a pond to catch all the fish; describes taking everything for immediate gain without thinking of the future. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.197 per million Cross-References Same as 涸泽而渔 hézé'éryúSynonym 杀鸡取卵 shājīqǔluǎn Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
