站着说话不腰疼
zhàn​zhe​shuō​huà​bù​yāo​téng

easier said than done

  • created sense approved 站着说话不腰疼/站著說話不腰疼 · zhàn​zhe​shuō​huà​bù​yāo​téng · easier said than done — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    站着说话不腰疼 / 站著說話不腰疼

    zhàn​zhe​shuō​huà​bù​yāo​téng

    easier said than done

    it's easy to talk when one is not the one doing the work; to give hypocritical or unhelpful advice from a position of ease without understanding the actual difficulty

    站着 (literal) → 站着/站著 · zhàn​zhe · to be standing 说话 (literal) → 说话/說話 · shuō​huà · to speak 不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 腰疼 (literal) → 腰疼 · yāo​téng · backache

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

    created sense