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咬文嚼字
咬文嚼字
Chinese
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|- ! !bite; nip
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language; culture; writing; formal; literary; gentle
!to chew
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letter; symbol; character; word
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!simp. and trad.
(咬文嚼字)
| 咬
| 文
| 嚼
| 字
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Idiom
咬文嚼字
- to bite on phrases and chew on characters; to pay excessive attention to wording and choice of characters; to nitpick like a grammar Nazi; to talk pedantically