Read Edit View history 海底捞针 Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 大海捞针 (大海撈針) dàhǎilāozhēn needle in a haystack idiom To fish for a needle in the sea; to engage in a search that is virtually impossible or extremely difficult to succeed. 在这座大城市里找一个多年未见的朋友，简直是大海捞针。 zài zhè zuò dà chéngshì lǐ zhǎo yī gè duō nián wèi jiàn de péngyou, jiǎnzhí shì dàhǎilāozhēn. Finding a friend you haven't seen for years in this big city is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Frequency Written text 0.024 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
大海捞针 (大海撈針) dàhǎilāozhēn needle in a haystack idiom To fish for a needle in the sea; to engage in a search that is virtually impossible or extremely difficult to succeed. 在这座大城市里找一个多年未见的朋友，简直是大海捞针。 zài zhè zuò dà chéngshì lǐ zhǎo yī gè duō nián wèi jiàn de péngyou, jiǎnzhí shì dàhǎilāozhēn. Finding a friend you haven't seen for years in this big city is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Frequency Written text 0.024 per million Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)