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言多必失
yán​duō​bì​shī

loose lips sink ships

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
言多必失 yán​duō​bì​shī
loose lips sink ships
if you talk too much, you are bound to slip up at some point; he who talks much errs much

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.030 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.664 per million

Cross-References

Synonym

  • 言多语失 yán​duō​yǔ​shī

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)