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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「素口罵人」 for your learning.

Here, we present the idiom 「素口罵人」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.

Swearing at others with a vegetarian mouth. A metaphor for hypocrisy.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

sù kǒu mà rén

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sou3 hau2 ma6 yan4

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