狗嘴里吐不出象牙 gǒuzuǐlǐtǔbùchūxiàngyágǒuzuǐlitǔbùchūxiàngyá nothing nice comes from a filthy mouth Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 狗嘴里吐不出象牙 狗嘴裡吐不出象牙 gǒuzuǐlǐtǔbùchūxiàngyá nothing nice comes from a filthy mouth A mean person never has a good word to say; used to insult someone whose speech is crude or unpleasant. 狗嘴里吐不出象牙 狗嘴裏吐不出象牙 gǒuzuǐlitǔbùchūxiàngyá a filthy mouth cannot utter decent language literally translated as "no ivory comes from the mouth of a dog"; one cannot expect decent or polite words from a person with a vulgar or malicious characterless mind Frequency Written text 0.057 per million Cross-References Variant of 狗口里吐不出象牙 gǒukǒulǐtǔbùchūxiàngyá Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
狗嘴里吐不出象牙 狗嘴裡吐不出象牙 gǒuzuǐlǐtǔbùchūxiàngyá nothing nice comes from a filthy mouth A mean person never has a good word to say; used to insult someone whose speech is crude or unpleasant. 狗嘴里吐不出象牙 狗嘴裏吐不出象牙 gǒuzuǐlitǔbùchūxiàngyá a filthy mouth cannot utter decent language literally translated as "no ivory comes from the mouth of a dog"; one cannot expect decent or polite words from a person with a vulgar or malicious characterless mind Frequency Written text 0.057 per million Cross-References Variant of 狗口里吐不出象牙 gǒukǒulǐtǔbùchūxiàngyá Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
