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seize on an incident to exaggerate matters; make use of the subject under discussion to put over one's own ideas; give vent to one's pent-up feelings on some extraneous pretext; make an issue of

jiè tí fā huī

借 题 发 挥

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slseize on an incident to exaggerate matters; make use of the subject under discussion to put over one's own ideas; give vent to one's pent-up feelings on some extraneous pretext; make an issue of
- wǒ zhǐ shì bù xiǎng gěi tā men jiè tí fā huī de jī huì
  我只是不想给他们借题发挥的机会。
  I just don't wanna give them any more ammunition than they already have.
- wú lùn lǐ jiào shòu jiǎng dào shén me tā dōu yào jiè tí fā huī biǎo dá zì jǐ de zhèng zhì guān diǎn
  无论李教授讲到什么，他都要借题发挥表达自己的政治观点。
  Whatever subject professor Li speaks on, he always makes it a peg to hang his own political views on.

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