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Open the tool →盲翁扪钥 (máng wēng mén yào) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “to make rash or arbitrary judgments about things based solely on partial understanding or limited experience”.
盲翁扪钥 is pronounced máng wēng mén yào in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 盲翁扪钥 means “Blind old man feeling for a key”. It is used to mean “to make rash or arbitrary judgments about things based solely on partial understanding or limited experience”.
比喻只凭片面了解或局部经验就对事物妄加判断。亦作“盲翁扪籥”。