光說不練 Save Create a free account to save words Simplified: 光说不练 guāngshuōbùliàn ㄍㄨㄤ ㄕㄨㄛ ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄧㄢˋ 男 女 all talk and no action (idiom) to preach what one does not practice same as 光说不做 guāngshuōbùzuò Character by character 光(guāng)light 說(shuō)speak 不(bù)no 練(liàn)practice Sign up for a free account to save words and review them A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0