指鹿作马

Traditional: 指鹿作馬

zhǐ lù zuò mǎ

Dictionary entry

to take a deer and call it a horse (idiom); deliberate inversion of the truth

What does 指鹿作马 mean?

指鹿作马 (zhǐ lù zuò mǎ) has the following dictionary meaning.

1to take a deer and call it a horse (idiom); deliberate inversion of the truth

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指zhǐfinger · to point at or to 鹿lùdeer 作zuō(bound form) worker · (bound form) workshop 马Mǎsurname Ma · abbr. for Malaysia 馬來西亞|马来西亚[Ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4]

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指鹿作马

zhǐ lù zuò mǎ

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