máng​rén​mō​xiàng

blind people touching an elephant

盲人摸象 máng​rén​mō​xiàng
blind people touching an elephant
To mistake the part for the whole or draw conclusions from incomplete data. This idiom comes from a story about blind men who each touch a different part of an elephant and describe the animal based only on what they felt.

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