Read Edit View history 食言而肥 shíyán'érféi to break a promise Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 食言而肥 shíyán'érféi to break a promise literally "to grow fat eating one's words"; to fail to live up to one's promises or be untrustworthy; used to describe someone who constantly goes back on their word Frequency Movie subtitles 0.060 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.038 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
食言而肥 shíyán'érféi to break a promise literally "to grow fat eating one's words"; to fail to live up to one's promises or be untrustworthy; used to describe someone who constantly goes back on their word Frequency Movie subtitles 0.060 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.038 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)