apply ointment to one 's lips and wipe one 's tongue with a towel

apply ointment to one 's lips and wipe one 's tongue with a towel

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is g ā och ú NSH ì sh é, which means to use all the language to move people. It comes from the biography of Lu Qiang, an official in the later Han Dynasty, written by song Fanye.

Idiom explanation

To apply with grease; wipe off. Apply ointment to your lips and wipe your tongue with a cloth. It is used to describe people who are moved by words.

The origin of Idioms

Fan Ye of the Southern Song Dynasty wrote in the biography of Lu Qiang, an official in the book of the later Han Dynasty: "the evil leaders, who are willing to chew, make flying stripes."