白雲蒼狗

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Chinese

white cloud; Baiyun
trad. (白雲蒼狗) 白雲 蒼狗
simp. (白云苍狗) 白云 苍狗
Literally: “white clouds are so changeable in shape that they look now like white garments and now like grey hounds”.

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Idiom

白雲蒼狗

  1. freakishness; changeable and strange; changes in human affairs often take freakish forms

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