Read Edit View history 望其项背 wàngqíxiàngbèi be able to catch up Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 望其项背 望其項背 wàngqíxiàngbèi be able to catch up To be able to see the back of someone's neck; used metaphorically to mean one is close to catching up or comparable in standard (usually used in the negative to mean far inferior or unable to catch up) Frequency Written text 0.375 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
望其项背 望其項背 wàngqíxiàngbèi be able to catch up To be able to see the back of someone's neck; used metaphorically to mean one is close to catching up or comparable in standard (usually used in the negative to mean far inferior or unable to catch up) Frequency Written text 0.375 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)