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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「口乾舌焦」 here, with meaning and examples.

This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「口乾舌焦」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

Used to describe talking a lot or using a lot of words. Same as “dry mouth and lips”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

kǒu gàn shé jiāo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hau2 gon3 sit3 jiu1

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