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旧瓶装新酒

jiù píng zhuāng xīn jiǔ

5-character word Traditional 舊瓶裝新酒

What 旧瓶装新酒 means

  1. lit. new wine in old bottles; fig. new concepts in an old framework
  2. (loan idiom from Matthew 9:17, but fig. meaning is opposite)

The characters in 旧瓶装新酒

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