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老实巴交
lǎo​shi​bā​jiāo

honest and docile

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
老实巴交 老實巴交 lǎo​shi​bā​jiāo
honest and docile
(colloquial) describes someone who is honest, simple, and follows the rules; good-natured and cautious to a fault; biddable or timid

Frequency

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

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)