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坐立不安
zuò​lì​bù'ān

on tenterhooks

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
坐立不安 zuò​lì​bù'ān
on tenterhooks
restless and uneasy; describes a state of being extremely anxious or fidgety, literally meaning to be unable to sit or stand comfortably

Frequency

Movie subtitles
1.46 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
1.03 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
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