needless duplication

needless duplication

Toushangzhutou, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is t ó ush à ngzhu ó t ó u, which means "toushangzhutou", a metaphor for redundancy and repetition. It comes from the Song Dynasty's shidaoyuan biography of lanterns in Jingde.

Idiom usage

To be a predicate or an object

Analysis of Idioms

Synonym: head to head

The origin of Idioms

Song Shidao's original "Jingde Zhuandeng Lu" Volume 19: "if there's anything wrong with you, it's just writing on the top of your head and adding insult to injury."

Idiom explanation

It is said that the head is secure. Metaphor is superfluous and repetitive.