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食言而肥
shí​yán'ér​féi

break promises

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
食言而肥 shí​yán'ér​féi
break promises idiom
to fail to live up to one's word; to be untrustworthy or go back on a commitment

Frequency

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

Sources

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