以讹传讹
Traditional form:
以訛傳訛
Pinyin (reading):
yǐ'échuán'é
Definitions:
- to spread falsehoods
- to increasingly distort the truth
- to pile errors on top of errors (idiom)
Characters:
- 以 - according to; so as to; because of; then
- 讹 - to swindle, to cheat; wrong, error; falsehood
- 传 - to pass on; to propagate; to transmit; summons
- 讹 - to swindle, to cheat; wrong, error; falsehood
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