cunning

cunning

Cunning and eccentric, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Zu ā ng ǔ Gu à I, the basic meaning is cunning, contrary to the general situation. From a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

The 37th chapter of a dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty: "you see, in the ancients, there were those tricky topics and extremely dangerous rhymes?"

Idiom usage

I can't guess a single one of them, and you just gossip. The eighty first chapter of Li Ruzhen's Jing Hua Yuan in Qing Dynasty

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym]: strange, strange and strange [antonym]: simple and easy-going