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本末倒置
běn​mò​dào​zhì

misplace priorities

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
本末倒置 běn​mò​dào​zhì
misplace priorities idiom
To stress the incidental over the fundamental, confuse cause and effect, or put the cart before the horse.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.210 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.703 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
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