探骊得珠
tàn lí dé zhūtanlidezhu
- to pluck a pearl from the black dragon (idiom, from Zhuangzi); fig. to pick out the salient points (from a tangled situation)
- to see through to the nub
tàn lí dé zhūtanlidezhu
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