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狐假虎威
hú​jiǎ​hǔ​wēi

borrowed power

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
狐假虎威 hú​jiǎ​hǔ​wēi
borrowed power idiom
lit. the fox exploits the tiger's might (idiom); fig. to use powerful connections to intimidate people

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.180 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.263 per million

Sources

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