指鹿作马
Traditional form:
指鹿作馬
Pinyin (reading):
zhǐlùzuòmǎ
Definitions:
- to take a deer and call it a horse (idiom); deliberate inversion of the truth
Characters:
- 指 - finger, toe; to point, to indicate
- 鹿 - deer; surname
- 作 - to make; to write, to compose; to act, to perform
- 马 - horse; surname
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