Read Edit View history 望梅止渴 wàngméizhǐkě to console oneself with illusions Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 望梅止渴 wàngméizhǐkě to console oneself with illusions To quench one's thirst by thinking of plums; to comfort oneself with empty hopes or unrealistic fantasies when a wish cannot be realized. Frequency Written text 0.222 per million Cross-References Synonym 画饼充饥 huàbǐngchōngjī Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
望梅止渴 wàngméizhǐkě to console oneself with illusions To quench one's thirst by thinking of plums; to comfort oneself with empty hopes or unrealistic fantasies when a wish cannot be realized. Frequency Written text 0.222 per million Cross-References Synonym 画饼充饥 huàbǐngchōngjī Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)