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顺藤摸瓜
shùn​téng​mō​guā

to follow clues

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
顺藤摸瓜 順藤摸瓜 shùn​téng​mō​guā
to follow clues
to track down someone or something by following clues; literally "to follow the vine to find the melon"

Frequency

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

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
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