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言过其实
yán​guò​qí​shí

to exaggerate

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
言过其实 言過其實 yán​guò​qí​shí
to exaggerate
to overstate the facts; to describe something as being greater than it actually is

Frequency

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

Cross-References

Synonym

  • 过甚其词 guò​shèn​qí​cí

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
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