be remote from the subject

be remote from the subject

The Chinese idiom pinyin is l í t í w à NL à, which means that writing or speaking is far away from the topic and has nothing to do with it. From Zhu Ziqing's on nonsense.

The origin of Idioms

Zhu Ziqing's on nonsense: "some people like to run wild horses when they talk, and they make trouble that they have no way to return.". Some people write "a thousand words, a thousand miles away from the topic."

Idiom usage

In writing an article, we should grasp the center of the matter and never write a thousand words and leave the topic far away

Idiom story

Once upon a time, there was a self righteous scholar who was jokingly called a doctor. He went to the street and bought a donkey. According to the custom at that time, the buyer had to write a contract for the seller. The doctor spread out the white paper, wrote a thousand words, and wrote three pieces of nonsense that had nothing to do with donkeys. The donkey seller was impatient and urged him to hurry up. He said that he was not in a hurry and had not written the word "donkey".

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym]: boastful, empty, full of nonsense; [antonym]: to the point, to the point, a thousand words