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纸上谈兵
zhǐ​shàng​tán​bīng

idle theorizing

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
纸上谈兵 (紙上談兵) zhǐ​shàng​tán​bīng
idle theorizing idiom
engaging in impractical or theoretical discussion that is useless in actual practice; literally planning military tactics on paper

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.480 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.836 per million

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Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)