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狗嘴里吐不出象牙
gǒu​zuǐ​li​tǔ​bù​chū​xiàng​yá

vile speech

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
狗嘴里吐不出象牙 (狗嘴裏吐不出象牙) gǒu​zuǐ​li​tǔ​bù​chū​xiàng​yá
vile speech
One cannot expect decent or refined words from someone who is inherently coarse or malicious.

Frequency

Written text
0.057 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)