Clumsy mouth

Clumsy mouth

Clumsy mouth means clumsy mouth. Not good at words. It comes from Volume 3 of xuanding's "sequel to night rain and Autumn Lantern records" in the Qing Dynasty: "a scholar should be a good scholar if he chews his words, and a farmer should be a clumsy one."

Idiom explanation

The mouth is clumsy. Not good at words.

Idioms and allusions

The third volume of xuanding's the sequel of night rain and Autumn Lantern records in the Qing Dynasty: "a scholar should be a scholar if he speaks his words, and a peasant should be a clumsy man."

Discrimination of words

[synonym]: clumsy, clumsy, clumsy [usage]: used as predicate and attributive; refers to people who are not good at words