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great straightness seems crooked

Time: 2022-01-30 22:32:59 Author: ChinaWiki.net

great straightness seems crooked

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is d à zh í Ru à Q à, which means that the most upright person looks like a wronged and easygoing person. From chapter 45 of Tao Te Ching.

The origin of Idioms

"On the biography of Xunshu in the later Han Dynasty:" as for the Dong family, the so-called "straight as bend, the road is solid and winding."

Analysis of Idioms

It's as if you are upright as if you are bent, and as if you are skillful as if you are clumsy

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate, attribute, or object

great straightness seems crooked


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