盐堆里爬出来的,尽说咸话鹽堆里爬出來的,儘說鹹話鹽堆里爬出來的,儘説鹹話

crawled out of a pile of salt: says nothing but "xián" talk (salty / idle)

Saying俗语俗語

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

Meaning: Scolds someone who only gossips or chatters idly and never says anything serious.
Wordplay: 咸 (xián, salty) is written for 闲 (xián, idle); "salty talk" puns on "idle talk".

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Simplified: 盐堆里爬出来的,尽说咸话
Traditional (Taiwan): 鹽堆里爬出來的,儘說鹹話
Traditional (Hong Kong): 鹽堆里爬出來的,儘説鹹話
Pinyin: yán duī lǐ pá chūlái de,jǐn shuō Xián huà
Bopomofo: ㄧㄢˊ ㄉㄨㄟㄌㄧˇ ㄆㄚˊ ㄔㄨㄌㄞˊ ˙ㄉㄜ,ㄐㄧㄣˇ ㄕㄨㄛㄒㄧㄢˊ ㄏㄨㄚˋ

Written with HSK 6 vocabulary, at CEFR level B2.

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