clever talk and an ingratiating manner

clever talk and an ingratiating manner

Quiet words make color, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j ì ngy á NL ì ngs è, which means to confuse others with sweet words and flattery. It comes from the biography of Zhai Fangjin in the history of Han Dynasty.

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym]: clever words make color

Idiom usage

As a predicate or attributive; of a person's words and deeds

Examples

Quiet words make color, that is, clever words make color. Wang Niansun's reading magazine Hanshu 13 in Qing Dynasty

The origin of Idioms

Ban Gu's biography of Zhai Fangjin in the book of Han in the Eastern Han Dynasty: "brother Xuan's words are quiet and his color is changed, and he is jealous of both the outside and the inside."