lips are dry and mouth is parched

lips are dry and mouth is parched

Dry mouth and dry lips, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is k à uz à och ú ng à n, which means that the mouth and lips are dry; it describes a lot of words or words. It's from Shanzai Xing.

Notes on Idioms

Dryness: dryness.

The origin of Idioms

In the book shanyaxing written by Wei Cao Zhi of the Three Kingdoms, it is said that "the future is very difficult, the mouth is dry and the lips are dry; today's happiness should be liked."

Idiom usage

It is used as predicate, attributive and adverbial to describe thirsty, anxious or talking too much.