绑腿带上绣山水，画长綁腿帶上繡山水，畫長綁腿帶上繡山水，畫長

embroidering a landscape on a leg-wrapping strip: the picture is long

Saying俗语俗語

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

Meaning: Said when a story is long and can't be told in a few words.
Wordplay: 画 (huà, picture) stands for 话 (huà, talk): the long strip carries a long picture, and the story is long.

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Simplified: 绑腿带上绣山水，画长
Traditional (Taiwan): 綁腿帶上繡山水，畫長
Pinyin: bǎngtuǐ dàishàng xiù Shānshuǐ, huà zhǎng
Bopomofo: ㄅㄤˇ ㄊㄨㄟˇ ㄉㄞˋ ㄕㄤˋ ㄒㄧㄡˋ ㄕㄢㄕㄨㄟˇ，ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄓㄤˇ

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

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