暗箱操作
Traditional form:
暗箱操作
Pinyin (reading):
ànxiāngcāozuò
Definitions:
- covert activities (election rigging etc)
- under-the-table manipulations
- black operations
Characters:
- 暗 - dark, gloomy; obscure; secret, covert
- 箱 - box, case; chest, trunk
- 操 - to conduct, to manage, to run
- 作 - to make; to write, to compose; to act, to perform
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