博士买驴 — Chinese idiom
博士买驴
bó shì mǎi lǘ
Traditional: 博士買驢
Meaning
- to act like the scholar who wrote at length about buying a donkey without even mentioning the word "donkey"; to write at length without ever getting to the point
Character by character
- 博bóto gamble, to play games; to win; rich, plentiful,
- 士shìscholar, gentleman; soldier
- 买mǎito buy, to purchase; to bribe, to persuade
- 驴lǘdonkey, ass
Idioms sharing a character
- 仁言利博 rén yán lì bó
- 博大精深 bó dà jīng shēn
- 博学多才 bó xué duō cái
- 博文约礼 bó wén yuē lǐ
- 博物洽闻 bó wù qià wén
- 博而不精 bó ér bù jīng
- 博识多通 bó shí duō tōng
- 博识洽闻 bó shí qià wén
- 地大物博 dì dà wù bó
- 峨冠博带 é guān bó dài
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