嘴上没毛，办事不牢
zuǐ​shàng​méi​máo​bàn​shì​bù​láo

a youth is unreliable

  • created sense approved 嘴上没毛，办事不牢/嘴上沒毛，辦事不牢 · zuǐ​shàng​méi​máo​bàn​shì​bù​láo · a youth is unreliable — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    嘴上没毛，办事不牢 / 嘴上沒毛，辦事不牢

    zuǐ​shàng​méi​máo​bàn​shì​bù​láo

    a youth is unreliable

    (proverb) literally "no hair on the lip means no reliability in work"; used to mean that a person who is too young or lacks experience cannot be trusted to handle important matters well

    嘴 (literal) → 嘴 · zuǐ · mouth 上 (bound) → 上 · shang · on 没 (literal) → 没/沒 · méi · not have 毛 (literal) → 毛 · máo · hair ， (non_chinese) 办事 (literal) → 办事/辦事 · bàn​shì · to handle affairs 不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 牢 (literal) → 牢 · láo · dependable

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

    created sense