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1 to get a thorough understanding of sth (idiom)

1 to wink at sb

1 to cause a dispute through boastful gossip (idiom)

1 to overreach oneself

2 to try to be clever and end up with egg on one's face

1 lit. to play with one's grandchildren while eating candy (idiom)

2 fig. to enjoy a happy and leisurely old age

1 (bird species of China) Nonggang babbler (Stachyris nonggangensis)

1 to make eyes

2 to wink

1 deliberately mystifying

2 to make sth unnecessarily complicated

1 to practice fraud (idiom); by trickery

1 to display one's slight skill before an expert (idiom)

1 unable to make sense of (sth)

1 unable to figure out

1 to figure out how to do something

1 lit. singing of the wind and the moon; fig. vacuous and sentimental (of poetry or art)

1 lit. dress up as God, play the devil (idiom); fig. to mystify

2 to deceive people

3 to scam

1 to incite a quarrel (idiom); to sow discord between people

2 to tell tales

3 to make mischief

1 to juggle with words (dishonestly)

2 to be a hypocrite and hide behind florid rhetoric

1 to get in hand

2 to get (one's) hands on

3 to get hold of (in the sense of to acquire)

1 pretense that turns into reality (idiom); to play at make-believe, but accidentally make it true