Tā pīpíng xiàjí jīguān zhǐ huì děngyīn-fèngcǐ, háowú chuàngxīn.
He criticized the lower offices for merely going through formalities with no innovation.
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In Qing- and Republic-era public documents, 等因 closed the cited reasoning above and 奉此 introduced the action below. The whole formula became shorthand for soulless rubber-stamping - and stuck as an idiom mocking bureaucracy.
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Strongly negative and literary. Use in writing or formal critique, not casual speech.
