说来话长
Traditional form:
說來話長
Pinyin (reading):
shuōláihuàcháng
Definitions:
- start explaining and it's a long story (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly
Characters:
- 说 - to speak, to say; to scold, to upbraid
- 来 - to arrive, to come, to return; in the future, later on
- 话 - talk, speech; language, dialect
- 长 - long, lasting; to excel in
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