博士買驢 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 博士买驴 bóshìmǎilǘ ㄅㄛˊ ㄕˋ ㄇㄞˇ ㄌㄩˊ to act like the scholar who wrote at length about buying a donkey without even mentioning the word "donkey" to write at length without ever getting to the point idiom Character by character 博(bó)abundant 士(shì)surname Shi 買(mǎi)buy 驢(lǘ)donkey A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0