talk till one 's tongue and lips are parched

talk till one 's tongue and lips are parched

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh é B ì ch ú NJI ā o, which means that when talking about broken tongue and dry lips, it's hard to describe. It comes from the internal biography of Fu Chai in the spring and Autumn period of Wu and Yue.

Idiom explanation

I: broken; coke: dry.

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 is used as predicate, object and complement.

Examples

Relatives and their families all said ~, and finally they couldn't stop it. (Lu Xun's hesitation, the loner)