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蝇营狗苟
yíng​yíng​gǒu​gǒu

self-seeking

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
蝇营狗苟 (蠅營狗苟) yíng​yíng​gǒu​gǒu
self-seeking idiom
to unscrupulously pursue personal gain by any means, like flies swarming around filth

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.060 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.063 per million

Sources

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