话不投机半句多
huà​bù​tóu​jī​bàn​jù​duō

disagreeable talk is a waste of breath

  • created sense approved 话不投机半句多/話不投機半句多 · huà​bù​tóu​jī​bàn​jù​duō · disagreeable talk is a waste of breath — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    话不投机半句多 / 話不投機半句多

    huà​bù​tóu​jī​bàn​jù​duō

    disagreeable talk is a waste of breath

    (idiom) if two people do not share the same views, even half a sentence is too much; when conversations become disagreeable, saying one more word is a waste of time

    话不投机 (literal) → 话不投机/話不投機 · huà​bù​tóu​jī · not on the same wavelength 半 (literal) → 半 · bàn · very little 句 (literal) → 句 · jù · [classifier] 多 (literal) → 多 · duō · too much

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

    created sense