博士买驴
bó​shì​mǎi​lǘ

long-winded and off-topic

  • created sense approved 博士买驴/博士買驢 · bó​shì​mǎi​lǘ · long-winded and off-topic — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    博士买驴 / 博士買驢

    bó​shì​mǎi​lǘ

    long-winded and off-topic

    (idiom) to write at great length without ever getting to the point; literally "a scholar buys a donkey", referring to a story where a scholar wrote three pages of a contract without mentioning the word "donkey"

    博士 (literal) → 博士 · bó​shì · scholar 买 (literal) → 买/買 · mǎi · to buy 驴 (literal) → 驴/驢 · lǘ · donkey

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

    created sense