得個講字

dak1 go3 gong2 zi6

'all bark and no bite'; all talk and no action; 'all mouth and no trousers'

2 Written Forms

Meanings

  1. 'all bark and no bite'; all talk and no action; 'all mouth and no trousers'

Written Forms

得個講字Traditional · Main Form
得个讲字Alternate Form

CC-Canto and the CC-CEDICT Cantonese readings are copyright (c) 2015-17 Pleco Software Incorporated, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. CC-CEDICT is copyright its maintainers, with portions from the original CEDICT database copyright (c) 1997, 1998 Paul Andrew Denisowski, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Filtered, regrouped by canonical lemma, and reformatted as an immutable web projection. Source gloss text is not rewritten.

View Source CC BY-SA 3.0