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Meaning of 本末倒置

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běn dào zhì
lit. to invert root and branch (idiom); fig. confusing cause and effect; to stress the incidental over the fundamental; to put the cart before the horse
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Antonyms: 本末相顺
Example Sentences
1
穿
Deciding what to wear before you've even been invited to the party is rather putting the cart before the horse, isn't it?
2
If you put bottom-up planning ahead of top-down planning, you' re putting the cart before the horse.
3
We shouldn't put the cart before the horses.
4
使
In the meantime, make sure your hands do not upstage your ideas.
5
But we cannot constantly pursue texture's disguising the old as the new and the tool, the material change and put the cart before the horse without substance beauty of form.