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Contents ·Cart before the horse ·běn mò dào zhì ·No. 3 ·Metaphor reverses the severity of the primary and secondary ·No. 5 ·English Expression ·French Expression ·Thesaurus Group ·Antonym Group ·More results... Cart before the horse 　　Explanation: The: root; end: trees; home: put. Used to describe the primary and secondary, the severity of the position upside down. 　　Usage: The main predicate; as predicate, object, attribute; compared the severity of major and minor things wrong 　　Source: Gold Anonymous "Suide in New Learning": "and when the instructions from cultivation and animal husbandry, who declared of the people ... ... then known rule of non-fan, then the cart before the horse is also not a bad idea." 　　Examples: Brief details of the person you are not simple, the details of who you and Jane and the unknown. ~, Do not want to criticize you? Playin! (Qu Bo "Linhaixueyuan" One, two) 　　Riddle: Half; bottom overturned; Postscript for the preamble běn mò dào zhì 　　The: roots. End: trees. Location: up. Compared to primary and secondary, fundamental and non fundamental relationship between the upside down Translated by Google No. 3 　　However, the trial of non-known rule, then this may well not cart before the horse. - Gold Anonymous "Suide in New Learning" Translated by Google Metaphor reverses the severity of the primary and secondary 　　Metaphor reverses the severity of the primary and secondary. Gold Anonymous "Suide in New Learning": "and animal husbandry were as Bong enlightenment declared from the people ... ... However, non-knowledge rule the trial, the nor have I ever not cart before the horse." Liang "Chinese parliamentary system of private meetings," Chapter II: " this cart before the horse, then, the basis of its threat to national unity, how can we blame Yan. "bound Responsibility" ancestral halls in the school ":" I think their jobs and hobbies are not contradictory, if not the cart before the horse, can be put right between relationships, it hobby but can sometimes work against their own benefit. " Translated by Google No. 5 　　本末倒置 ( běn mò dào zhì ) 　　【解释】：本：树根；末：树梢；置：放。比喻把主次、轻重的位置弄颠倒了。 　　【出自】：金·无名氏《绥德州新学记》：“然非知治之审，则未尝不本末倒置。” 　　【示例】：该简者你却详而不简，该详者你又简而不详。～，批评你还不愿意？乱弹琴！ ◎曲波《林海雪原》一二 　　【近义词】：轻重倒置、舍本求末 　　【反义词】：以一持万、本末相顺、分清主次 　　【语法】：主谓式；作谓语、宾语、定语；比喻弄错了事物的轻重主次 　　灯 谜 半；瓶底朝天；跋作序言 　　【英文】：take the branch for the root ；put the incidental before the fundamental ；put the cart before the horse English Expression :  Put the cart before the horse. n.:  put the cart before the horse,  set the cart before the horse,  the cart draws the horse,  the cart leads the horse,  put the cart before the horse,  put the ,cart before the `horse reverse the logical order of things, eg by saying that the result of sth is what caused it,  take the branch for the root,  put the incidental before the fundamental French Expression v.  prendre la branche pour la racine, prendre le secondaire pour le principal, mettre la charrue devant les bœufs, renverser l'ordre naturel des choses Thesaurus Group act and think in one and the same way, act as one speaks, (literally) The mouth agrees with the mind.--to speak one's mind frankly, inconsiderateness, One's tongue runs before one's wit., honest and outspoken, have the heart in the right place, speak out without beating about the bush; come straight to the point, Outset, reverse the positions of the host and the guest, The sauce is better than the fish ., have a fishbone caught in one's throat, change/speak one''s mind, straight forward talk from an honest man, quick of tongue, I always fast heart, Quick and thoughtless in speech Heart Straight, name and reality consistent, Brainstorm, brainstorm, safe thoroughfare, what one sits and preaches,one must stand up to practice, blurt out, whim, whim, Chongkou Village cause and effect inverse Antonym Group disloyalty, fire in one hand and water in the other, venality, carry fire in one hand and water in the other, like Lord Ye who claimed to be found of dragons but was mortally afraid of them, generosity, act wrongly out of personal considerations pervert the law, bend the law for personal gain, jobbery, Give him aninchand he'll take an ell., appetite cames with eating, Double heart, significance profound, Be trying to do or say Unspeakable, hold one's hand, Hang jemmy, Heart to heart, prevaricate, Avarice knows no bound greed is like a valley that can never be filled, Deep Culture profound argumentation, dramatize foil, Xuanyugushi, Hongyuntuoyue, one's eyes are bigger than one's belly, disloyalty, betray, break one's promise, batten on cab, jobbery, Duplicity, character Less diction, character Cannot but within, speak with one's tongue in one's cheek, Nutshell disbelief, Words, and faithlessness, act otherwise than one says, s feeling, make incessant,exorbitant demands, make endless exorbitant, moneygrubber the pores of one's mind--the source of one's intellectual capacity, be insatiably greedy, take bribes, practise graft skulduggery, the language fails to express the idea, overtly agree, but covertly oppose, use ambiguous language, anon house