指鹿作馬 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 指鹿作马 zhǐlùzuòmǎ ㄓˇ ㄌㄨˋ ㄗㄨㄛˋ ㄇㄚˇ to take a deer and call it a horse (idiom) deliberate inversion of the truth Character by character 指(zhǐ)finger 鹿(lù)deer 作(zuò)do 馬(mǎ)surname Ma A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0