Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「巧立名目」 for your learning.
Here’s the idiom 「巧立名目」, with its definition and practical application described below.
They create various legal pretexts to achieve some improper purposes.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qiǎo lì míng mù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
haau2 laap6 ming4 muk6
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