指鹿为马
指鹿為馬Meanings
CC-CEDICT
- 1.making a deer out to be a horse (idiom); deliberate misrepresentation
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Wiktionary
- 1.to be a false witness; to deliberately misinterpret and invert right and wrong
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Etymology
First attested in c. 197 BCE in a story in Xinyu: : This story was also mentioned in the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji). In Shiji, the ministers pointed to the animal as deer in order to please the eunuch Zhao Gao, and Zhao was said to have later retaliated on those who referred to it as a deer.
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Components
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