祸从口出 — Chinese idiom
祸从口出
huò cóng kǒu chū
Traditional: 禍從口出
Meaning
- Trouble issues from the mouth . A loose tongue may cause a lot of trouble.
Character by character
- 祸huòmisfortune, disaster, calamity
- 从cóngfrom, by, since, whence, through
- 口kǒumouth; entrance, gate, opening
- 出chūto go out, to send out; stand; produce
Idioms sharing a character
- 包藏祸心 bāo cáng huò xīn
- 因祸得福 yīn huò dé fú
- 天灾人祸 tiān zāi rén huò
- 嫁祸于人 jià huò yú rén
- 幸灾乐祸 xìng zāi lè huò
- 杀身之祸 shā shēn zhī huò
- 祸不单行 huò bù dān xíng
- 祸不旋踵 huò bù xuán zhǒng
- 祸国殃民 huò guó yāng mín
- 祸福无常 huò fú wú cháng
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