Read Edit View history 因噎废食 yīnyēfèishí over-caution Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 因噎废食 (因噎廢食) yīnyēfèishí over-caution idiom to avoid or abandon something essential because of a slight risk or minor problem; to cut off one's nose to spite one's face Frequency Movie subtitles 0.060 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.388 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
因噎废食 (因噎廢食) yīnyēfèishí over-caution idiom to avoid or abandon something essential because of a slight risk or minor problem; to cut off one's nose to spite one's face Frequency Movie subtitles 0.060 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.388 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)