tell part of the truth but not all of it

tell part of the truth but not all of it

Hide one's head and show one's tail, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is C á NGT ó UL ù w ě I, which means hide one's head and show one's tail; it describes being evasive and not telling the whole truth. It comes from Dian Jiang lip, a poem of turning back.

The origin of Idioms

Yuan · Zhang Kejiu's divertimento "point the crimson lips and turn over the words to come back": early retirement of officials and abandonment of their posts, far away from the world of mortal right and wrong, save hidden head and tail. "

Analysis of Idioms

[near synonym] beat around the Bush, beat around the Bush, hide and disappear; and [antonym] is straightforward, straight to the point, and outspoken

Idiom usage

It is used as predicate and adverbial to describe evasion in doing and speaking. As soon as you hang up a fake signboard, you will have a lot of face to restrain you. How can you be content to have fun! The thirtieth chapter of Zeng Pu's a dream of Red Mansions in Qing Dynasty and the third and fourth chapter of Cao Xueqin's a dream of Red Mansions in Qing Dynasty: Xue pan was a straightforward man and could not see the hidden things. In Chapter 40 of the story of heroes and heroines, he said, "the master is a man who walks in all directions. He has never seen such sneaky and insidious intentions. 」