三七二十一 sān qī èrshíyī

sān qī èrshíyī set phrase three sevens are twenty-one; the facts of the matter; the actual situation
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '三七二十一')

Contained in

• 不管三七二十一 regardless of the consequences; recklessly relying on a hopelessly optimistic forecast
• 管他三七二十一 who cares; no matter what; regardless of the consequences

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 地員第五十八 Chapter 58: Land Officials Guanzi 管子 — count: 2
• 卷八　齊一 Chapter 8: Qi I Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 1
• 卷15　志第10 音樂下 Volume 15 Treatises 10: Music 3 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 1
• 《蘇秦列傳》 Biography of Su Qin Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 1
• 卷十二　道應訓 Chapter 12: Responses of the Way Huainanzi 淮南子 — count: 1
• 卷十五 Scroll 15 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 1

Collocations

• 三七二十一万 (三七二十一萬) 三七二十一萬 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《蘇秦列傳》 Biography of Su Qin — count: 2