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顾此失彼
gù​cǐ​shī​bǐ

overstretched

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
顾此失彼 (顧此失彼) gù​cǐ​shī​bǐ
overstretched idiom
To attend to one thing while neglecting another; unable to manage multiple tasks or aspects simultaneously.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.060 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.740 per million

Sources

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