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救命稻草
jiù​mìng​dào​cǎo

a straw to clutch at

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
救命稻草 jiù​mìng​dào​cǎo
a straw to clutch at
a last hope or desperate resort that usually fails to solve the problem; something one relies on in a crisis that is ultimately ineffective

Frequency

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0.895 per million

Cross-References

Classifier

  • 根 gēn

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Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)
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