xià​wǔ​guō​gōng

lacuna

夏五郭公 xià​wǔ​guō​gōng
lacuna
Missing or corrupted text in a book or manuscript. This idiom refers to two incomplete phrases from the classic text "Spring and Autumn Annals": "summer, five" (missing the month) and "Duke of Guo" (lacking a corresponding narrative).

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