Read Edit View history 偷工减料 tōugōngjiǎnliào skimping Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 偷工减料 (偷工減料) tōugōngjiǎnliào skimping idiom to cut corners by using inferior materials or reducing necessary labor to save costs, especially in construction or manufacturing sloppy work idiom to perform a task in a perfunctory, careless, or dishonest manner; to do a job halfway Frequency Movie subtitles 0.510 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.36 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
偷工减料 (偷工減料) tōugōngjiǎnliào skimping idiom to cut corners by using inferior materials or reducing necessary labor to save costs, especially in construction or manufacturing sloppy work idiom to perform a task in a perfunctory, careless, or dishonest manner; to do a job halfway Frequency Movie subtitles 0.510 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.36 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)