不识庐山真面目
bù​shí​lú​shān​zhēn​miàn​mù

can't see the forest for the trees

  • created sense approved 不识庐山真面目/不識廬山真面目 · bù​shí​lú​shān​zhēn​miàn​mù · can't see the forest for the trees — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    不识庐山真面目 / 不識廬山真面目

    bù​shí​lú​shān​zhēn​miàn​mù

    can't see the forest for the trees

    Literally "not to know the true face of Lushan Mountain"; an idiom used to describe being unable to see the whole truth or the objective reality of a situation because one is too involved in it.

    bú​shí​lú​shān​zhēn​miàn​mù

    不识 (literal) → 不识/不識 · bù​shí · to not recognize 庐山 (literal) → 庐山/廬山 · lú​shān · Mount Lushan 真面目 (literal) → 真面目 · zhēn​miàn​mù · true colors

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

    created sense