只说不做
zhǐ​shuō​bù​zuò

to be all talk and no action

  • created sense approved 只说不做/只說不做 · zhǐ​shuō​bù​zuò · to be all talk and no action — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    只说不做 / 只說不做

    zhǐ​shuō​bù​zuò

    to be all talk and no action

    all talk and no action; to talk but never act

    只 (literal) → 只 · zhǐ · only 说 (literal) → 说/說 · shuō · to say 不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 做 (literal) → 做 · zuò · to do

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

    created sense