kè​huà​wú​yán

to make an inappropriate comparison

刻画无盐 刻畫無鹽 kè​huà​wú​yán
to make an inappropriate comparison
To compare an ugly person to a beauty or to compare a poor imitation to an original; to make an ill-fitting or absurd comparison. This idiom references the ugly woman 无盐 wú​yán and the legendary beauty 西施 xī​shī.

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