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舞文弄墨

wǔ wén nòng mò

Definitions

  • •(idiom) to display one's facility with words
  • •to show off one's literary skills
  • •(original meaning) to pervert the law by playing with legal phraseology (墨[mò] was a reference to 繩墨|绳墨[shéng mò])

Child Words of 舞文弄墨

弄
nòng
弄
lòng
文
wén
墨
mò
舞
wǔ