- to fabricate excuses (idiom)
- to concoct various items (e.g. to pad an expense account)
Characters
- 巧 (巧): opportunely; coincidentally; as it happens; skillful; timely
- 立 (立): surname Li
- 名 (名): name; noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners); famous; classifier for people
- 目 (目): eye; (literary) to look; to regard; eye (of a net); mesh; mesh size; grit size (abbr. for 目數|目数[mu4 shu4]); item; section; list; catalogue; (taxonomy) order; name; title
Resources
- Wiktionary: 巧立名目
- MDBG: 巧立名目
- Examples with 巧立名目 on Tatoeba
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