金玉其外,败絮其中

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For pronunciation and definitions of – see 金玉其外,敗絮其中 (“gilded exterior, shabby and ruined on the inside; fly in the ointment; a sugarcoated bitter pill; fair without, foul within”).
(This term is the simplified form of 金玉其外,敗絮其中).
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