狗咬秤砣，嘴巴好硬狗咬秤砣，嘴巴好硬狗咬秤砣，嘴巴好硬

a dog bites a steelyard weight: what a hard mouth

Saying俗语俗語

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

Meaning: Mocks someone who talks tough or stubbornly refuses to back down in what they say.
Wordplay: 硬 (yìng) means physically hard (the weight) and also firm or defiant (the speech).

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Simplified: 狗咬秤砣，嘴巴好硬
Pinyin: gǒu yǎo chèngtuó, zuǐba hǎo yìng
Bopomofo: ㄍㄡˇ ㄧㄠˇ ㄔㄥˋ ㄊㄨㄛˊ，ㄗㄨㄟˇ ˙ㄅㄚㄏㄠˇ ㄧㄥˋ

Written with HSK 5 vocabulary, at CEFR level B2.

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