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费尽心机
fèi​jìn​xīn​jī

rack brains

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
费尽心机 (費盡心機) fèi​jìn​xīn​jī
rack brains expression
to exhaust one's mental faculties in plotting or trying to find a solution; to take great pains

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.860 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.745 per million

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Definitions
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Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)