枝节横生

zhi1 jie2 heng2 sheng1

a new branch grows out of a knot (idiom); fig. side issues keep arising

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枝节横生

zhī jié héng shēng

branch forth; branch out; bring up unexpected trouble; bristling with complications and difficulties; create side issues; deliberately complicate an issue; (of a tree) have many branches and knots; unexpected difficulties

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枝節橫生|枝节横生 [zhī jié héng shēng] ► a new branch grows out of a knot (idiom); fig. side issues keep arising