created sense approved 三纸无驴/三紙無驢 · sānzhǐwúlǘ · wordy and off-topic — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
三纸无驴 / 三紙無驢
sānzhǐwúlǘ
wordy and off-topic
Describes writing that is long-winded and redundant without getting to the main point. Literally means writing three pages of a contract to buy a donkey without once mentioning the word 'donkey'.
三 (literal) → 三 · sān · three 纸 (literal) → 纸/紙 · zhǐ · [classifier] 无 (literal) → 无/無 · wú · to not have 驴 (literal) → 驴/驢 · lǘ · donkey
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition