惊弓之鸟
jīng​gōng​zhī​niǎo

skittish

惊弓之鸟 (驚弓之鳥) jīng​gōng​zhī​niǎo
skittish idiom
a person who is easily frightened or hyper-reactive because of past trauma, much like a bird startled by the mere sound of a bowstring

Frequency
Movie subtitles
0.180 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.467 per million

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Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)