口干舌燥

Traditional: 口乾舌燥

kǒu gān shé zào

Dictionary entry

lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom); to talk too much

What does 口干舌燥 mean?

口干舌燥 (kǒu gān shé zào) has the following dictionary meaning.

1lit. dry mouth and tongue (idiom); to talk too much

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口kǒumouth · classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)干gānold variant of 乾|干[gan1]舌jīused in 喇舌[la3 ji1] to transcribe the Taiwanese word for "tongue"燥zàodry; parched · impatient; vexed

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口干舌燥

kǒu gān shé zào

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