本末倒置

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Chinese

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root or trunk of a tree and the branches; the fundamental and the incidental to place upside down; to invert; to invert
simp. and trad.
(本末倒置)
本末 倒置
Literally: “to invert root and branch”.

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Idiom

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本末倒置

  1. putting the cart before the horse

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