指鹿作马 (指鹿作馬)
zhǐ lù zuò mǎ
Pinyin
Definition
指鹿作马 (指鹿作馬)
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- to take a deer and call it a horse (idiom); deliberate inversion of the truth
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 worker
- 2 workshop
- 3 (slang) troublesome
- 4 high-maintenance (person)
- 1 one's conduct
- 2 deed
- 3 activity
- 4 accomplishment
- 5 achievement
- 6 to act as
- 7 as (in the capacity of)
- 8 qua
- 9 to view as
- 10 to look upon (sth as)
- 11 to take sth to be
Idioms (20)
一弹指顷
- 1 a snap of the fingers (idiom); in a flash
- 2 in the twinkling of an eye
了如指掌
- 1 to know sth like the back of one's hand (idiom)
- 2 to know (a person, a place etc) inside out
令人发指
- 1 to make one's hair stand up in anger (idiom); to raise people's hackles
以身作则
- 1 to set an example (idiom); to serve as a model
伸手不见五指
- 1 pitch-dark (idiom)