指鹿作馬

to take a deer and call it a horse (idiom); deliberate inversion of the truth

finger / to point at or to / to indicate or refer to / to depend on / to count on / (of hair) to stand on end

deer

worker / workshop / (slang) troublesome / high-maintenance (person)

to do; to engage in / to write; to compose / to pretend; to feign / to regard as; to consider to be / to be; to act the part of / to feel (itchy, nauseous etc) / writings; works

trestle / carpenter's frame

sawhorse

surname Ma / abbr. for Malaysia 馬來西亞|马来西亚[Ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4]

horse / CL:匹[pi3] / horse or cavalry piece in Chinese chess / knight in Western chess