话不投机 — Chinese idiom
话不投机
huà bù tóu jī
Traditional: 話不投機
Meaning
- not on the same wavelength; unable to have a congenial conversation; to not see eye to eye
Character by character
- 话huàtalk, speech; language, dialect
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 投tóuto pitch, to throw; to bid, to invest
- 机jīdesk; machine; moment, opportunity
Idioms sharing a character
- 二话不说 èr huà bù shuō
- 无话不谈 wú huà bù tán
- 无话可说 wú huà kě shuō
- 说来话长 shuō lái huà cháng
- 长话短说 cháng huà duǎn shuō
- 闲话家常 xián huà jiā cháng
- 鬼话连篇 guǐ huà lián piān
- 一丁不识 yī dīng bù shí
- 一尘不染 yī chén bù rǎn
- 一字不差 yī zì bù chà
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