Read Edit View history Discussion 聪明反被聪明误 cōngmingfǎnbèicōngmingwù too smart for one's own good Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 聪明反被聪明误 聰明反被聰明誤 cōngmingfǎnbèicōngmingwù too smart for one's own good (idiom) a clever person may become the victim of their own ingenuity; cleverness may overreach itself. It describes someone who tries to use schemes or clever tactics but ends up harming their own interests. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.240 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.216 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
聪明反被聪明误 聰明反被聰明誤 cōngmingfǎnbèicōngmingwù too smart for one's own good (idiom) a clever person may become the victim of their own ingenuity; cleverness may overreach itself. It describes someone who tries to use schemes or clever tactics but ends up harming their own interests. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.240 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.216 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)