强词夺理 — Chinese idiom
强词夺理
qiǎng cí duó lǐ
Traditional: 強詞奪理
Meaning
- to twist words and force logic
- sophistry
- loud rhetoric making up for fallacious argument
- shoving false arguments down people's throats
Character by character
- 强qiǎngstrong, powerful, energetic
- 词cíphrase, expression; words, speech
- 夺duóto rob, to snatch, to take by force
- 理lǐscience, reason, logic; to manage
Idioms sharing a character
- 不畏强暴 bù wèi qiáng bào
- 不畏强权 bù wèi qiáng quán
- 以弱胜强 yǐ ruò shèng qiáng
- 以强凌弱 yǐ qiáng líng ruò
- 兵强马壮 bīng qiáng mǎ zhuàng
- 坚强不屈 jiān qiáng bù qū
- 外强中干 wài qiáng zhōng gān
- 富国强兵 fù guó qiáng bīng
- 差强人意 chā qiáng rén yì
- 年富力强 nián fù lì qiáng
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