驷马难追 sìmǎnánzhuī what is said cannot be unsaid Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 驷马难追 駟馬難追 sìmǎnánzhuī what is said cannot be unsaid A team of four horses cannot catch up with a spoken word; used to mean that once something is said, it cannot be taken back Frequency Written text 0.079 per million Cross-References See 一言既出,驷马难追 yīyánjìchūsìmǎnánzhuī Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
驷马难追 駟馬難追 sìmǎnánzhuī what is said cannot be unsaid A team of four horses cannot catch up with a spoken word; used to mean that once something is said, it cannot be taken back Frequency Written text 0.079 per million Cross-References See 一言既出,驷马难追 yīyánjìchūsìmǎnánzhuī Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)