秀才遇到兵
xiù​cai​yù​dào​bīng

[xiehouyu] reasoning with the unreasonable

  • created reference approved 秀才遇到兵 → 秀才遇到兵，有理说不清/秀才遇到兵，有理說不清 (same_as) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    秀才遇到兵 xiù​cai​yù​dào​bīng

    秀才遇到兵，有理说不清 / 秀才遇到兵，有理說不清 xiù​cai​yù​dào​bīng​yǒu​lǐ​shuō​bù​qīng

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  • created sense approved 秀才遇到兵 · xiù​cai​yù​dào​bīng · [xiehouyu] reasoning with the unreasonable — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    秀才遇到兵

    xiù​cai​yù​dào​bīng

    [xiehouyu] reasoning with the unreasonable

    A scholar meeting a soldier; a common saying used to describe a situation where a reasonable person cannot communicate with or talk sense into someone who is being stubborn, crude, or unreasonable

    秀才 (literal) → 秀才 · xiù​cai · imperial candidate 遇到 (literal) → 遇到 · yù​dào · to encounter 兵 (literal) → 兵 · bīng · soldier

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

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