藏頭露尾

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Chinese

storehouse; depository; Buddhist or Taoist scripture
storehouse; depository; Buddhist or Taoist scripture; Zang; Tibet; to hide away; to conceal; to harbor; store; accumulate
 
head; (noun suffix)
to show; to reveal; to expose
to show; to reveal; to expose; dew
 
tail
trad. (藏頭露尾)
simp. (藏头露尾)
Literally: “to show the tail but hide the head”.

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Idiom

藏頭露尾

  1. to tell part of the truth but not all of it