大费唇舌
dà​fèi​chún​shé

to waste a lot of breath

  • created sense approved 大费唇舌/大費脣舌 · dà​fèi​chún​shé · to waste a lot of breath — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    大费唇舌 / 大費脣舌

    dà​fèi​chún​shé

    to waste a lot of breath

    to talk a great deal in an effort to explain or persuade; to go to great lengths to convince someone

    大 (literal) → 大 · dà · greatly 费 (literal) → 费/費 · fèi · to exert 唇舌 (literal) → 唇舌 · chún​shé · words; argument

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

    created sense