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班門弄斧
班門弄斧
See also: 班门弄斧
Chinese
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team; class; rank; squad; a work shift; a measure word; (a surname)
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opening; door; gate; doorway; gateway; valve; switch; way to do something; knack; family; house; (religious) sect; school (of thought); class; category; phylum or division (taxonomy)
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to do; to manage; to handle; to play with; to fool with; to mess with; to fix; to toy with; lane; alley
!hatchet |- !trad. (班門弄斧) | 班 | 門 | 弄 | 斧 |- !simp. (班门弄斧) | 班 | 门 | 弄 | 斧 |- !Literally: “brandish an axe at Ban's gate”. |}
Idiom
班門弄斧
- show off one's inferior talent or skill in front of an expert