话到嘴边留三分
Traditional form:
話到嘴邊留三分
Pinyin (reading):
huàdàozuǐbiānliúsānfēn
Definitions:
- A still tongue makes a wise head. (idiom)
Characters:
- 话 - talk, speech; language, dialect
- 到 - to go to, to arrive
- 嘴 - mouth, lips
- 边 - border, edge, margin, side
- 留 - to stay, to remain; to preserve, to keep; to leave a message;
- 三 - three
- 分 - to divide, to allocate; fraction; small unit of time or other quantity
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