枉费唇舌
wǎng​fèi​chún​shé

to waste one's breath

  • created sense approved 枉费唇舌/枉費脣舌 · wǎng​fèi​chún​shé · to waste one's breath — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    枉费唇舌 / 枉費脣舌

    wǎng​fèi​chún​shé

    to waste one's breath

    to waste many words to no avail; to talk in vain without achieving any results

    枉费 (literal) → 枉费/枉費 · wǎng​fèi · to waste 唇舌 (literal) → 唇舌 · chún​shé · words; argument

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

    created sense