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There is a jewel and a box in the idiom.
Buy the box, but return the pearls.

Pronunciation m m m:m I dúHuán zhá.

Interpretation: wooden box; Pearl: Pearl. Bought a business box and returned the pearls. Metaphor has no vision and improper choice.

The source of "Han Feizi's Stories on the Left": "Chu people have sold pearls to Zheng, which are the cabinets of Mulan, smoked with cinnamon, decorated with pearls, roses and plumes. Zheng people buy their coffins and return their beads. " The story of buying bamboo slips and returning pearls.

Example: A poor reader, an ignorant elite, pities the dross. What are the benefits of buying bamboo slips and pearls? If it were in the vernacular, there would never be this disease. (Qing Qiu Liang Ting, "On the vernacular as the basis of reform")

Synonyms are putting the cart before the horse and putting the cart before the horse.

The antonyms are coarse and fine.