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过犹不及
guò​yóu​bù​jí

excess is bad

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
过犹不及 (過猶不及) guò​yóu​bù​jí
excess is bad idiom
too far is as bad as not enough (idiom, from the Analects)

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.180 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.300 per million

Sources

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