Chinese

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peel; to skin cocoon
trad. (抽絲剝繭) 抽絲
simp. (抽丝剥茧) 抽丝
Literally: “to peel the cocoon (of a silkworm) by unraveling the (raw) silk thread from which it was spun”.

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Idiom

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抽絲剝繭

  1. to painstakingly get to the bottom of something; to struggle to understand a convoluted argument or issue