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苍蝇不叮无缝蛋
cāng​ying​bù​dīng​wú​fèng​dàn

no smoke without fire

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
苍蝇不叮无缝蛋 蒼蠅不叮無縫蛋 cāng​ying​bù​dīng​wú​fèng​dàn
no smoke without fire
literally "flies do not sting eggs that have no cracks"; used to say that there is always a reason why someone or something is targeted or criticized

Frequency

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0.053 per million

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Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)