指鹿為馬

Etymology
in a story in :



This story was also mentioned in the  (Shiji). In Shiji, the ministers pointed to the animal as deer in order to please the eunuch, and Zhao was said to have later retaliated on those who referred to it as a deer.

Idiom

 * 1)  to be a false witness; to deliberately misinterpret and invert right and wrong