Read Edit View history 恨铁不成钢 hèntiěbùchénggāng disappointed expectations Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 恨铁不成钢 (恨鐵不成鋼) hèntiěbùchénggāng disappointed expectations idiom frustrated with someone for failing to meet expectations or reach their potential, often out of a desire for them to succeed Frequency Written text 0.494 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
恨铁不成钢 (恨鐵不成鋼) hèntiěbùchénggāng disappointed expectations idiom frustrated with someone for failing to meet expectations or reach their potential, often out of a desire for them to succeed Frequency Written text 0.494 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)