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草木皆兵

草木皆兵

Chinese

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grass; straw; draft (of a document); careless; rough; manuscript; hasty

!tree; wood !all; each and every; in all cases

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soldiers; a force; an army; weapons; arms; military; warlike

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Idiom

草木皆兵

  1. describes a situation in which someone is being overly paranoid

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