only make empty promises(tú tuō kōng yán)

only make empty promises

Empty talk, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is t ú Tu ō K ō ngy á n, which means to place hope on empty talk in vain; it means to speak empty talk only, but not to carry it out. It comes from the preface of Taishigong in Shiji.

The origin of Idioms

"Confucius said," it's better for me to read the empty words that I want to carry out than to write them clearly and clearly. "

Idiom usage

It refers to saying nothing but doing nothing. The 46th chapter of Li Baojia's a brief history of civilization in Qing Dynasty: "I have seen this kind of comment in the Western newspaper more than once Is it just empty talk? "

Chinese PinYin : tú tuō kōng yán