talk till one's tongue and lips are parched

talk till one's tongue and lips are parched

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch ú NJI ā OSH é B ì, which means to talk too much and to waste words. It comes from the internal biography of Fu Chai in the spring and Autumn period of Wu and Yue.

Idiom explanation

Jiao: dry; I: broken. Dry lips, broken tongue.

The origin of Idioms

Zhao Ye of the Han Dynasty wrote in the internal biography of Fu Chai in the spring and Autumn period of Wu and Yue: "scorched lips and dry tongue, labored hard, served the officials and raised the common people."

Idiom usage

It's hard to talk. Feiya went to his own villages again. He made friends with others and talked about things. He kept on talking about things, and ran for more than a month in a row. The second chapter of Eastern European heroines by Lady Lingnan in the Qing Dynasty