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Home / Idiom / 指鹿为马

making a deer out to be a horse (idiom); deliberate misrepresentation

指鹿为马
zhǐ lù wéi mǎ
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to confuse right and wrong (idiom)混淆是非hùn xiáo shì fēilit. to invert black and white (idiom); to distort the truth deliberately · to misrepresent the facts · to invert right and wrong颠倒黑白diān dǎo hēi báito obscure · to confuse · to mix up · to blur · to mislead混淆hùn xiáoto take a deer and call it a horse (idiom); deliberate inversion of the truth指鹿作马zhǐ lù zuò mǎ(idiom) to distort right and wrong; to deliberately mislead颠倒是非diān dǎo shì fēito distinguish horse and deer easily · to know right from wrong马鹿易形mǎ lù yì xíng
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