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钻牛角
zuān niú jiǎo
Definitions
- •lit. honing a bull's horn; fig. to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem
- •to bash one's head against a brick wall
- •a wild goose chase
- •a blind alley
- •to split hairs
- •same as idiom 鑽牛角尖|钻牛角尖