xià​wǔ​guō​gōng

lacuna

Senses

夏五郭公 xià​wǔ​guō​gōng lacuna

Missing or corrupted text in a book or manuscript. This idiom refers to two incomplete phrases from the classic text "Spring and Autumn Annals": "summer, five" (missing the month) and "Duke of Guo" (lacking a corresponding narrative).

References

variant 夏五郭公/夏五郭公 郭公夏五/郭公夏五