光说不做 — Chinese idiom
光说不做
guāng shuō bù zuò
Traditional: 光說不做
Meaning
- to be all talk and no action; to preach what one does not practice
Character by character
- 光guānglight; bright, brilliant; only, merely
- 说shuōto speak, to say; to scold, to upbraid
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 做zuòto work, to make; to act
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
- 光说不练 guāng shuō bù liàn
- 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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