Read Edit View history 弄巧成拙 nòngqiǎochéngzhuō to outsmart oneself Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 弄巧成拙 nòngqiǎochéngzhuō to outsmart oneself to try to be clever and end up making things worse; to overreach oneself and fail; to end up with egg on one's face Frequency Movie subtitles 0.360 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.577 per million Cross-References Synonym 画蛇添足 huàshétiānzú Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
弄巧成拙 nòngqiǎochéngzhuō to outsmart oneself to try to be clever and end up making things worse; to overreach oneself and fail; to end up with egg on one's face Frequency Movie subtitles 0.360 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.577 per million Cross-References Synonym 画蛇添足 huàshétiānzú Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)