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
lively and vigorous flourishes in calligraphy - lóng fēi fèng wǔ
difficulty is the nurse of greatness - yù rǔ yú chéng
practise bribery or receive bribes publicly - huì lù gōng xíng
get the opposite of what one wants - yù yì fǎn bì