created sense approved 刻画无盐/刻畫無鹽 · kèhuàwúyán · to make an inappropriate comparison — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
刻画无盐 / 刻畫無鹽
kèhuàwúyán
to make an inappropriate comparison
To compare an ugly person to a beauty or to compare a poor imitation to an original; to make an ill-fitting or absurd comparison. This idiom references the ugly woman [[无盐|無鹽|wu2 yan2]] and the legendary beauty [[西施|西施|xi1 shi1]].
刻画 (literal) → 刻画/刻畫 · kèhuà · to portray 无盐 (literal) → 无盐/無鹽 · wúyán · Wu Yan
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