引经据典
yǐn​jīng​jù​diǎn HSK7

to quote authoritative works

引经据典 引經據典 yǐn​jīng​jù​diǎn
to quote authoritative works
To quote from the classics or other authoritative works to support one's argument; to quote chapter and verse.
pedantic
To be overly formal or pedantic by excessively quoting ancient works

Frequency
Movie subtitles
0.270 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.344 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7

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Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)