Definition
A chengyu (four-character idiom) meaning 'to deliberately distort the truth'. It literally pictures someone turning black into white and white into black — a vivid metaphor for misrepresenting facts, often in speech, writing, or propaganda.
phrase
to deliberately distort the truthto misrepresent facts
Examples
- ，颠倒黑白，。Zài fǎtíng shàng, tā shìtú diān dǎo-hēi bái, dàn zhèngjù hěn qīngchu.In court, he tried to distort the truth, but the evidence was clear.
- 颠倒黑白。Zhè zhǒng diān dǎo-hēi bái de xuānchuán huì wùdǎo hěnduō rén.This kind of truth-distorting propaganda will mislead many people.
- 颠倒黑白，。Tā xiě de bàodào wánquán diān dǎo-hēi bái, háo wú shìshí yījù.The report he wrote completely distorts the truth and has no factual basis.
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