横生枝节
Traditional form:
橫生枝節
Pinyin (reading):
héngshēngzhījié
Definitions:
- to deliberately complicate an issue (idiom)
Characters:
- 横 - horizontal, across; unreasonable, harsh
- 生 - life, lifetime; birth; growth
- 枝 - branches, limbs; to branch off
- 节 - festival; knot, joint; segment; to economize, to save
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