牵肠 (牽腸) qiān cháng

qiān cháng phrase to be anxious
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Mathews 1931 '牽腸', p. 122)

Contained in

• 牵肠挂肚(牽腸掛肚) deeply worried; to feel anxious
• 牵肠害肚(牽腸害肚) to be deeply anxious

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 第二回 Chapter 26 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
• 第二回 Chapter 37 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 1
• 第八十七回 Chapter 87 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 1

Collocations

• 牵肠挂 (牽腸掛) 人家牽腸挂肚的等著 — Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢, 第二回 Chapter 26 — count: 2