棉花店里挂绷弓儿，不弹棉花店里掛繃弓兒，不彈棉花店里掛繃弓兒，不彈

hanging a cotton-fluffing bow in a cotton shop: not fluffing (not talking)

Saying俗语俗語

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

Meaning: Means someone refuses to talk about it. Humorous.
Wordplay: 弹 tán 'to fluff cotton' puns on 谈 tán 'to talk', which are homophones.

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Simplified: 棉花店里挂绷弓儿，不弹
Traditional (Taiwan): 棉花店里掛繃弓兒，不彈
Pinyin: miánhua diàn lǐ guà bēng gōng ér, bú dàn
Bopomofo: ㄇㄧㄢˊ ˙ㄏㄨㄚㄉㄧㄢˋ ㄌㄧˇ ㄍㄨㄚˋ ㄅㄥㄍㄨㄥㄦˊ，ㄅㄨˊ ㄉㄢˋ

Written with HSK 7-9 vocabulary, at CEFR level C1.

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