舞文弄墨

wǔ wén nòng mò

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Definitions

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