光说不练 Save Create a free account to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 光說不練 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 说(shuō)speak 不(bù)no 练(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