Translation

• (idiom) to display one's facility with words
• to show off one's literary skills
• (original meaning) to pervert the law by playing with legal phraseology (墨[mo4] was a reference to 繩墨|绳墨[sheng2 mo4])

Synonyms

• 叠床架屋, 堆砌, 寻章摘句, 雕砌