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Chinese
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Lu Ban
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opening; door; gate opening; door; gate; doorway; gateway; valve; switch; way to do something; knack; family; house; (religious) sect; school (of thought); class; category; (taxonomy) phylum or division
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to do; to manage; to handle to do; to manage; to handle; to play with; to fool with; to mess with; to fix; to toy with; lane; alley
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hatchet
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| trad. (班門弄斧)
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班
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門
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弄
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斧
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| simp. (班门弄斧)
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班
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门
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弄
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斧
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| Literally: “brandish an axe at Ban's gate”.
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Pronunciation
Idiom
班門弄斧
- (sometimes humble) to show off one's inferior talent or skill in front of an expert
- to teach an expert how to do things
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