The meaning of the bull's head and the horse's mouth

The meaning of the cow's head is not right, the horse's mouth is as follows:

Detailed explanation

The cow's head is not right as the horse's mouth [niú tóu bù duì mǎ zuǐ]

It means that the answer is wrong or the two words are inconsistent.

As long as people give him [Mr. Lu] a bad compliment, then he will be happy. ◎Chapter 16 of "The Appearance of Officialdom" by Li Baojia of the Qing Dynasty

Source

Volume 11 of "Warning Words" by Feng Menglong of the Ming Dynasty: "Zao Li slapped him in the face and spat, He scolded: 'Damn it, my surname is Gao, he's from Jiangxi, he's wrong!'"

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Example sentence

1 , Maybe he was eavesdropping on her inaccurate words.

2. We must have misunderstood each other.

3. That foreign company The news agency's report on this incident was simply nonsense.

4. The fly paper was put on the ham rack and the cabbage was placed on the snack rack. It was really wrong.

5. He always does things that are unbelievable to us and says things that we think are completely wrong.

6. Some of Haldeman's descriptions are pertinent, others are simply absurd; and the overall view is completely wrong.

7. Hall Some of De Man's descriptions are pertinent, others are simply absurd, and the whole view is completely wrong.

8. The author doesn't even have the Yellow River to describe all kinds of 'laughing causes and conditions'. Having been there and writing about life in Beijing, it is natural that the story is completely wrong and full of jokes.

9. What he said today was completely inaccurate, and he must have something in his heart!

10. He told a bunch of lies, which was simply inaccurate.

Near antonyms

Near synonyms

The answer is wrong? The bull’s head is not the same as the horse’s face? The donkey’s lips are not the horse’s mouth

Interpretation

It is an idiom that means something is too illogical.