光说不练 — Chinese idiom
光说不练
guāng shuō bù liàn
Traditional: 光說不練
Meaning
- all talk and no action
- to preach what one does not practice
- same as 光说不做 (guāng shuō bù zuò)
Character by character
- 光guānglight; bright, brilliant; only, merely
- 说shuōto speak, to say; to scold, to upbraid
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 练liànto drill, to exercise; to practice, to train
Idioms sharing a character
- 五光十色 wǔ guāng shí sè
- 光前裕后 guāng qián yù hòu
- 光天化日 guāng tiān huà rì
- 光明磊落 guāng míng lěi luò
- 光耀门楣 guāng yào mén méi
- 光芒万丈 guāng máng wàn zhàng
- 光说不做 guāng shuō bù zuò
- 光阴似箭 guāng yīn sì jiàn
- 光阴荏苒 guāng yīn rěn rǎn
- 光风霁月 guāng fēng jì yuè
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