街谈巷议 — Chinese idiom
街谈巷议
jiē tán xiàng yì
Traditional: 街談巷議
Meaning
- town gossip
- streetcorner conversations
Character by character
- 街jiēstreet, road, thoroughfare
- 谈tánto talk, to chat; conversation; surname
- 巷xiàngalley, lane
- 议yìto consult, to talk over; to criticize, to discuss
Idioms sharing a character
- 大街小巷 dà jiē xiǎo xiàng
- 花街柳巷 huā jiē liǔ xiàng
- 街头巷尾 jiē tóu xiàng wěi
- 促膝谈心 cù xī tán xīn
- 奇谈怪论 qí tán guài lùn
- 娓娓而谈 wěi wěi ér tán
- 混为一谈 hùn wéi yī tán
- 无稽之谈 wú jī zhī tán
- 无话不谈 wú huà bù tán
- 纸上谈兵 zhǐ shàng tán bīng
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