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因小失大
yīn​xiǎo​shī​dà

penny-wise

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
因小失大 yīn​xiǎo​shī​dà
penny-wise idiom
to save a little only to lose a lot

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.060 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.276 per million

Sources

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