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虎头蛇尾
hǔ​tóu​shé​wěi

anticlimactic

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
虎头蛇尾 (虎頭蛇尾) hǔ​tóu​shé​wěi
anticlimactic idiom
To start with a flourish but end weakly; a strong start but a weak finish.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.330 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.491 per million

Sources

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