act clandestinely

act clandestinely

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is l ò UW ě IC á NGT ó u, which means hiding the head and exposing the 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. "

Word usage

Chapter 8 of Wenkang's biography of heroes and heroines in Qing Dynasty: "although I hide my head every sentence, I've been searched for life by you two, and my words are probably clear."