借题发挥 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 借題發揮 jiètífāhuī ㄐㄧㄝˋ ㄊㄧˊ ㄈㄚ ㄏㄨㄟ to use the current topic to put over one's own ideas to use sth as a pretext to make a fuss Character by character 借(jiè)borrow 题(tí)surname Ti 发(fā)send out 挥(huī)wave A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0