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探骊得珠

Traditional 探驪得珠

tàn lí dé zhū

to pluck a pearl from the black dragon…

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Meanings

tàn lí dé zhū 探驪得珠

  1. to pluck a pearl from the black dragon (idiom, from Zhuangzi); fig. to pick out the salient points (from a tangled situation)
  2. to see through to the nub

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