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退而求其次
tuì'ér​qiú​qí​cì

to settle for second best

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
退而求其次 tuì'ér​qiú​qí​cì
to settle for second best
To settle for the next best thing or seek a scaled-down objective when one's primary goal cannot be achieved.

Frequency

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0.435 per million

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Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)