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扬长避短
yáng​cháng​bì​duǎn

to play to one's strengths

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
扬长避短 揚長避短 yáng​cháng​bì​duǎn
to play to one's strengths
to foster strengths and avoid weaknesses; to use pluses and ignore minuses

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.120 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
1.32 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
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