虎头蛇尾 hǔtóushéwěi fine start and poor finish Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 虎头蛇尾 虎頭蛇尾 hǔtóushéwěi fine start and poor finish Literally "tiger's head, snake's tail"; describes something that starts with a lot of energy and momentum but ends weakly or remains unfinished. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.330 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.491 per million Cross-References Antonym 有头有尾 yǒutóuyǒuwěiReferenced by 龙头蛇尾 lóngtóushéwěi Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
虎头蛇尾 虎頭蛇尾 hǔtóushéwěi fine start and poor finish Literally "tiger's head, snake's tail"; describes something that starts with a lot of energy and momentum but ends weakly or remains unfinished. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.330 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.491 per million Cross-References Antonym 有头有尾 yǒutóuyǒuwěiReferenced by 龙头蛇尾 lóngtóushéwěi Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
