风声鹤唳 fēngshēnghèlì extremely jittery Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 风声鹤唳 風聲鶴唳 fēngshēnghèlì extremely jittery To panic at the slightest move or be extremely nervous; literally "the sighing of the wind and the cry of cranes," from a story of defeated soldiers who mistook these natural sounds for the approaching enemy army Frequency Movie subtitles 0.060 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.403 per million Cross-References See 草木皆兵 cǎomùjiēbīngSynonym 杯弓蛇影 bēigōngshéyǐng溃不成军 kuìbùchéngjūnAntonym 所向披靡 suǒxiàngpīmǐ Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
风声鹤唳 風聲鶴唳 fēngshēnghèlì extremely jittery To panic at the slightest move or be extremely nervous; literally "the sighing of the wind and the cry of cranes," from a story of defeated soldiers who mistook these natural sounds for the approaching enemy army Frequency Movie subtitles 0.060 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.403 per million Cross-References See 草木皆兵 cǎomùjiēbīngSynonym 杯弓蛇影 bēigōngshéyǐng溃不成军 kuìbùchéngjūnAntonym 所向披靡 suǒxiàngpīmǐ Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
