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博士买驴
bó​shì​mǎi​lǘ

long-winded and off-topic

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
博士买驴 博士買驢 bó​shì​mǎi​lǘ
long-winded and off-topic
(idiom) to write at great length without ever getting to the point; literally "a scholar buys a donkey", referring to a story where a scholar wrote three pages of a contract without mentioning the word "donkey"

Frequency

Written text
0.002 per million

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)