| 释义 |
Examples:lit. say grapes are sour when you can't eat them—don't let rhetoric spoil the message (idiom); don't get carried away with flowery speech the detriment of what you want to say—what I say is really nothing out of the ordinary—not worry about the gossip (idiom); to do the right thing regardless of what others say—say one and mean just that (idiom); to keep one's word—external appearance and inner thoughts coincide (idiom); say what one means—pick up what others say (idiom); to pass off other people's opinions as one's own—lit. heart and mouth as one (idiom); say what you think—thousands of words (idiom); having a lot of things say—lit. breathe through the same nostril (idiom); fig. two people say exactly the same thing (usually derog.)—Go your own way, let others say what they like. (popular modern cliche)—say a matter has no relationship with the individual referred to, to emphasise one is innocent or in the clear—I have much more say than can be written in this letter (conventional letter ending) [idiom.]—fig. interrupt sb. urgently and say one's piece—say sth. without meaning it (idiom); to speak tongue in cheek—lit. say three in the morning but four in the evening (idiom); change sth. that is already settled upon—talk random nonsense (idiom); to say whatever comes into one's head— |