Read Edit View history 冰冻三尺 bīngdòngsānchǐ ice three feet deep Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 冰冻三尺 (冰凍三尺) bīngdòngsānchǐ ice three feet deep idiom literally 'ice three feet thick'; used metaphorically to mean that a state of affairs has not come about suddenly, but is the result of long-term accumulation or development. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.090 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.062 per million Sources Definitions AI-generated definitions Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
冰冻三尺 (冰凍三尺) bīngdòngsānchǐ ice three feet deep idiom literally 'ice three feet thick'; used metaphorically to mean that a state of affairs has not come about suddenly, but is the result of long-term accumulation or development. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.090 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.062 per million Sources Definitions AI-generated definitions Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)