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老骥伏枥
lǎo​jì​fú​lì

ambitious elderly

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
老骥伏枥 (老驥伏櫪) lǎo​jì​fú​lì
ambitious elderly idiom
lit. an old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop 1000 miles; fig. an aged person who still harbors great aspirations

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.030 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.089 per million

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