Read Edit View history 壮士断腕 zhuàngshìduànwàn to cut one's losses Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 壮士断腕 壯士斷腕 zhuàngshìduànwàn to cut one's losses to make a difficult and courageous decision to cut off a part of something to save the whole, like a hero cutting off his own wrist after a venomous snake bite; to act decisively in a crisis Frequency Written text 0.203 per million Cross-References Synonym 壮士解腕 zhuàngshìjiěwàn Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
壮士断腕 壯士斷腕 zhuàngshìduànwàn to cut one's losses to make a difficult and courageous decision to cut off a part of something to save the whole, like a hero cutting off his own wrist after a venomous snake bite; to act decisively in a crisis Frequency Written text 0.203 per million Cross-References Synonym 壮士解腕 zhuàngshìjiěwàn Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)