八十岁的妈妈没牙，唇说八十歲的媽媽沒牙，唇說八十歲的媽媽沒牙，唇説

An eighty-year-old mother with no teeth: speaks with her lips

Saying俗语俗語

Two-part saying歇后语歇後語 · Rarely used now

Meaning: Describes someone talking nonsense or empty talk. Mocking.
Wordplay: 唇 (chún, lips) stands for the near-sounding 蠢 (chǔn, stupid); the book calls them close in sound, not identical, so 'speaks with lips' hints at 'speaks foolishly'.

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Simplified: 八十岁的妈妈没牙，唇说
Traditional (Taiwan): 八十歲的媽媽沒牙，唇說
Traditional (Hong Kong): 八十歲的媽媽沒牙，唇説
Pinyin: bāshí suì de māma méi yá, chún shuō
Bopomofo: ㄅㄚㄕˊ ㄙㄨㄟˋ ˙ㄉㄜㄇㄚ ˙ㄇㄚㄇㄟˊ ㄧㄚˊ，ㄔㄨㄣˊ ㄕㄨㄛ

Written with HSK 3 vocabulary, at CEFR level A2.

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