牵强附会

牽強附會

qiānqiǎng-fùhuì

idiom #46,466

Meanings

HSK 4

这种解释太牵强附会了。

Zhèzhǒng jiěshì tài qiānqiǎngfùhuì le.

That interpretation is a real stretch.

HSK 6

不要把毫无关系的事牵强附会在一起。

Búyào bǎ háowú guānxi de shì qiānqiǎngfùhuì zài yìqǐ.

Don't force unrelated things into the same frame.

mistakes

强 here is read qiǎng (to force), not qiáng (strong) or jiàng (stubborn). The tone changes the meaning.

usage

Strongly negative. Commonly applied to sloppy reasoning, pseudo-science, bad literary criticism, or legal arguments that don't hold up.

牵 qiān

强 qiáng

附 fù

会 huì