yǐn​bīng

to drink ice water

饮冰 飲冰 yǐn//bīng
to drink ice water
to cool oneself by drinking ice water
to be burning with anxiety
to feel great anxiety or inner turmoil, as if one needs to drink ice water to cool an inner fire; describes a state of worry or fear after receiving a difficult or daunting assignment

Frequency

Written text
0.122 per million

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)