Learn advanced Chinese idioms like 「枉費唇舌」, following the path from basic characters to phrases, all with this free resource.
Discover the idiom 「枉費唇舌」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
It’s a waste of words, they don’t work.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wǎng fèi chún shé
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
wong2 fai3 seun4 sit3
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