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鸡鸣狗盗
jī​míng​gǒu​dào

petty skills

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
鸡鸣狗盗 雞鳴狗盜 jī​míng​gǒu​dào
petty skills
(idiom) minor skills or deceptive tricks; petty, underhanded behavior
small-time crooks
people with minor, low-level skills (originally referring to the retainers of Lord Mengchang who helped him escape by mimicking a rooster and a dog)

Frequency

Written text
0.102 per million

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)