Read Edit View history 饥不择食 jībùzéshí desperate Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 饥不择食 (飢不擇食) jībùzéshí desperate idiom accepting any available option or help without being selective when in an urgent or desperate situation; beggars can't be choosers famished idiom eating whatever is available without being picky when extremely hungry Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Written text 0.337 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
饥不择食 (飢不擇食) jībùzéshí desperate idiom accepting any available option or help without being selective when in an urgent or desperate situation; beggars can't be choosers famished idiom eating whatever is available without being picky when extremely hungry Show rare definitions Hide rare definitions Frequency Written text 0.337 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)