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