Read Edit View history 割鸡焉用牛刀 gējīyānyòngniúdāo overkill Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 割鸡焉用牛刀 割雞焉用牛刀 gējīyānyòngniúdāo overkill Why use a meat cleaver to kill a chicken; used to describe wasting a lot of effort on a small matter or using a great talent for a trivial task. Frequency Written text 0.011 per million Cross-References Variant of 杀鸡焉用牛刀 shājīyānyòngniúdāoSame as 牛刀割鸡 niúdāogējīReferenced by 牛刀 niúdāo Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
割鸡焉用牛刀 割雞焉用牛刀 gējīyānyòngniúdāo overkill Why use a meat cleaver to kill a chicken; used to describe wasting a lot of effort on a small matter or using a great talent for a trivial task. Frequency Written text 0.011 per million Cross-References Variant of 杀鸡焉用牛刀 shājīyānyòngniúdāoSame as 牛刀割鸡 niúdāogējīReferenced by 牛刀 niúdāo Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)