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舞文弄墨 舞文弄墨 [wu3 wen2 nong4 mo4] /(idiom) to display one's facility with words/to show off one's literary skills/(original meaning) to pervert the law by playing with legal phraseology (墨[mo4] was a reference to 繩墨|绳墨[sheng2 mo4])/ 1952 1

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