俗话说
sú​huà​shuō HSK7

as the saying goes

  • created sense approved 俗话说/俗話說 · sú​huà​shuō · as the saying goes — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    俗话说 / 俗話說

    sú​huà​shuō

    as the saying goes

    Used to introduce a well-known proverb, meaning "as the saying goes" or "as the common proverb says".

    俗话 (literal) → 俗话/俗話 · sú​huà · common saying 说 (literal) → 说/說 · shuō · to say

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense