说来话长
shuō​lái​huà​cháng

it's a long story

  • created sense approved 说来话长/說來話長 · shuō​lái​huà​cháng · it's a long story — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    说来话长 / 說來話長

    shuō​lái​huà​cháng

    it's a long story

    it is a long story; indicates that a situation is complicated and cannot be explained quickly or easily or succinctly

    说来 (literal) → 说来/說來 · shuō​lái · having brought this up 话 (literal) → 话/話 · huà · speech 长 (literal) → 长/長 · cháng · long

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

    created sense