Read Edit View history 捉襟见肘 zhuōjīnjiànzhǒu impecunious Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 捉襟见肘 (捉襟見肘) zhuōjīnjiànzhǒu impecunious idiom Short of money and unable to make ends meet. overstretched idiom Facing a situation where resources are insufficient to meet demands; having too many difficulties to handle at once (literally pulling on the lapels and exposing the elbows). Frequency Movie subtitles 0.180 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.53 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
捉襟见肘 (捉襟見肘) zhuōjīnjiànzhǒu impecunious idiom Short of money and unable to make ends meet. overstretched idiom Facing a situation where resources are insufficient to meet demands; having too many difficulties to handle at once (literally pulling on the lapels and exposing the elbows). Frequency Movie subtitles 0.180 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.53 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)