偷梁換柱

tōuliánghuànzhù ㄊㄡㄌㄧㄤˊ ㄏㄨㄢˋ ㄓㄨˋ

- lit. to steal a rafter and replace it with a column
- to replace the original with a fake
- to perpetrate a fraud (idiom)

Character by character

偷(tōu)steal
梁(liáng)bridge
換(huàn)change
柱(zhù)pillar

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