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舞文弄墨

wǔwénnòngmò

ㄨˇ ㄨㄣˊ ㄋㄨㄥˋ ㄇㄛˋ

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  1. 1(idiom) to display one's facility with words
  2. 2to show off one's literary skills
  3. 3(original meaning) to pervert the law by playing with legal phraseology (墨[mo4] was a reference to 繩墨|绳墨[sheng2 mo4])

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