凭空杜撰
píng​kōng​dù​zhuàn

to fabricate out of thin air

  • created sense approved 凭空杜撰/憑空杜撰 · píng​kōng​dù​zhuàn · to fabricate out of thin air — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    凭空杜撰 / 憑空杜撰

    píng​kōng​dù​zhuàn

    to fabricate out of thin air

    to make up a story or produce a work based purely on imagination without any basis in reality; to concoct or invent a falsehood

    凭空 (literal) → 凭空/憑空 · píng​kōng · out of thin air 杜撰 (literal) → 杜撰 · dù​zhuàn · to fabricate

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    created sense