Act up to the wrong
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh ì f ē ISU í Gu ò, which generally means to cover up a mistake but to make a bigger mistake. It comes from the spring and Autumn Annals of the Lu family.
Idioms and allusions
Source: Lu's spring and Autumn Annals: the debate about the son's eating me is enough to disguise his mistakes
Discrimination of words
Usage: used as predicate, object and attribute; used in handling affairs, etc
Act up to the wrong
thousands and thousands of words - qiān yán wàn yǔ
the nation is beset by difficulties - guó bù jiān nán
so skillfully imitated as to be indistinguishable from the real - wéi xiāo wéi miào