心不在焉
xīn​bù​zài​yān

absent-minded

心不在焉 xīn​bù​zài​yān
absent-minded idiom
Being distracted, inattentive, or having one's thoughts wandering elsewhere.

他今天听课时心不在焉，总是在看窗外。

tā jīn​tiān tīng​kè shí xīn​bù​zài​yān, zǒng​shì zài kàn chuāng wài.

He was absent-minded during the lecture today, always looking out the window.

Frequency
Movie subtitles
3.58 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
1.64 per million

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