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耍笔杆子
shuǎ​bǐ​gǎn​zi

to wield a pen

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents

Senses

耍笔杆子/ 耍筆桿子 shuǎ​bǐ​gǎn​zi to wield a pen

to make a living by writing or to engage in professional writing, often with a derogatory connotation of being a desk-bound intellectual or engaging in empty rhetoric

References

variant 耍笔杆/耍筆桿 → 耍笔杆子/耍筆桿子
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