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Cover up the defects

Time: 2022-01-31 05:33:01 Author: ChinaWiki.net

Cover up the defects

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh ì g ò uy ǎ NC ī, which means to whitewash and cover up blemishes and shortcomings. It comes from the biography of Xiao Baoyin in the book of Wei.

The origin of Idioms

In the biography of Xiao Baoyin in the book of Wei, it is said that "no one is meticulous in attaching to each other, sharing the same lips and teeth, disguising the dirty and covering up the defects, and adding Dansu rashly. It is only interesting to get the rank, and there is no pity."

Idiom usage

Used as a predicate, object, or attribute.

Cover up the defects


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