Playing French and dancing

Playing French and dancing

Nong FA Wu Wen, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is n ò NGF ǎ w ǔ w é n, which means playing with words and misinterpreting legal provisions to achieve the purpose of favoritism. It comes from historical records, biographies of merchants.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym]: wuwennongfa, wuwenplayfa

The origin of Idioms

"Shi Ji · Huo Zhi liezhuan" says: "the officials who do not evade the punishment of knives and saws are not the bribes.

Idiom usage

As predicate, object, attribute; refers to the distortion of legal provisions. Examples ~, deaf, stupid, and so on. Liu Ji's guanzhenzhong in Ming Dynasty