捕风捉影
bǔ​fēng​zhuō​yǐng

act on hearsay

捕风捉影 (捕風捉影) bǔ​fēng​zhuō​yǐng
act on hearsay idiom
to make accusations or take action based on shadows and rumors without any solid basis
groundless idiom
unfounded and based on rumors or unreliable evidence rather than facts

Frequency
Movie subtitles
0.540 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.708 per million

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Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)