不得要领
bù​dé​yào​lǐng

to miss the point

  • created sense approved 不得要领/不得要領 · bù​dé​yào​lǐng · to miss the point — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    不得要领 / 不得要領

    bù​dé​yào​lǐng

    to miss the point

    to fail to grasp the main point or key parts of a matter

    不得 (literal) → 不得 · bù​dé · cannot 要领 (literal) → 要领/要領 · yào​lǐng · essentials

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense