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五花八门

wǔ huā bā mén · literally “five flowers, eight gates”

Meaning

A bewildering variety of kinds or methods — often mildly critical of how many there are.

In a sentence

The app store offers 五花八门 ways to learn a language.

Usage note

Unlike 五光十色 it can carry a hint of "too many to choose from".

Where you see it in Brain Challenge

This idiom appears in the picture-idiom levels as a picture or number clue. When the clue shows numbers, the digits usually become the first characters of each half of the idiom — that is why so many chengyu start with 一, 三, 五, 七, 九 or 十.

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