好說歹說 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 好说歹说 hǎoshuōdǎishuō ㄏㄠˇ ㄕㄨㄛ ㄉㄞˇ ㄕㄨㄛ to try one's very best to persuade sb to reason with sb in every way possible idiom Character by character 好(hǎo)good 說(shuō)speak 歹(dǎi)bad 說(shuō)speak A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0