To make a clumsy attempt to conceal something, which only serves to expose it; to give oneself away by an attempt to hide something.
小明考试没考好，怕妈妈骂，把试卷藏了起来，还故意大声说“我今天没有玩游戏”，这简直是此地无银三十两，反而让妈妈起了疑心。
Xiao Ming didn't do well on his exam. Fearing his mother's scolding, he hid the test paper and deliberately announced loudly, "I didn't play games today." This was a classic case of "no thirty taels of silver buried here," which only made his mother suspicious.
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Once upon a time, there was a meticulous yet overconfident man named Zhang San. He painstakingly saved three hundred taels of silver.
Fearing theft, he secretly dug a pit in his yard one night, buried the silver, and then placed a sign over the spot that read, 'No three hundred taels of silver buried here.'
His neighbor, a thief named Wang Er, saw this, stole the silver, and left behind a sign that read, 'Neighbor Wang Er did not steal it.'
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