身在曹营心在汉 shēnzàicáoyíngxīnzàihàn loyal to one's former master Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 身在曹营心在汉 身在曹營心在漢 shēnzàicáoyíngxīnzàihàn loyal to one's former master to remain loyal to a former cause or leader while being forced to work for another, as exemplified by 关羽 guānyǔ while in the service of 曹操 cáocāo physically here but mentally elsewhere to be in one place while longing to be somewhere else; to have one's mind on something other than the task at hand Frequency Written text 0.124 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
身在曹营心在汉 身在曹營心在漢 shēnzàicáoyíngxīnzàihàn loyal to one's former master to remain loyal to a former cause or leader while being forced to work for another, as exemplified by 关羽 guānyǔ while in the service of 曹操 cáocāo physically here but mentally elsewhere to be in one place while longing to be somewhere else; to have one's mind on something other than the task at hand Frequency Written text 0.124 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
