移花接木 — Chinese idiom
移花接木
yí huā jiē mù
Meaning
- (lit.) to graft flowers onto a tree
- (fig.) to surreptitiously substitute one thing for another
Character by character
- 移yíto shift, to move about, to drift
- 花huāflower, blossom; to spend (time or money)
- 接jiēto connect, to join; to receive, to meet, to answe
- 木mùtree; wood, lumber; wooden
Idioms sharing a character
- 愚公移山 yú gōng yí shān
- 本性难移 běn xìng nán yí
- 游移不定 yóu yí bù dìng
- 确凿不移 què záo bù yí
- 移情别恋 yí qíng bié liàn
- 移风易俗 yí fēng yì sú
- 借花献佛 jiè huā xiàn Fó
- 名花有主 míng huā yǒu zhǔ
- 天花乱坠 tiān huā luàn zhuì
- 奇花异草 qí huā yì cǎo
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