Read Edit View history 打草惊蛇 dǎcǎojīngshé to alert an enemy Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 打草惊蛇 打草驚蛇 dǎcǎojīngshé to alert an enemy (idiom) lit. beat the grass and scare the snake; fig. to unintentionally alert an opponent through careless actions, allowing them to prepare in advance to warn others (idiom) to punish or reprimand one person as a warning to another Frequency Movie subtitles 1.49 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.696 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
打草惊蛇 打草驚蛇 dǎcǎojīngshé to alert an enemy (idiom) lit. beat the grass and scare the snake; fig. to unintentionally alert an opponent through careless actions, allowing them to prepare in advance to warn others (idiom) to punish or reprimand one person as a warning to another Frequency Movie subtitles 1.49 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.696 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)