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.
lips are dry and mouth is parched
Those who follow will prosper, those who go against will perish - shùn zhī zhě chāng,nì zhī zhě wáng
speak carelessly , rapidly , voluminously like the outflow of river water when the sluice gates are opened - xìn kǒu kāi hé
scatter at the mere sight of the oncoming force - cóng fēng ér mí
end neither in victory nor defeat - bù fēn shèng fù