铁齿铜牙 — Chinese idiom
铁齿铜牙
tiě chǐ tóng yá
Traditional: 鐵齒銅牙
Meaning
- clever and eloquent speaker
Character by character
- 铁tiěiron; strong, solid, firm
- 齿chǐteeth; gears, cogs; age
- 铜tóngcopper, bronze
- 牙yátooth, molar; fang, tusk; serrated
Idioms sharing a character
- 手无寸铁 shǒu wú cùn tiě
- 斩钉截铁 zhǎn dīng jié tiě
- 砸锅卖铁 zá guō mài tiě
- 磨穿铁砚 mó chuān tiě yàn
- 踏破铁鞋 tà pò tiě xié
- 铜墙铁壁 tóng qiáng tiě bì
- 铮铮铁汉 zhēng zhēng tiě hàn
- 铁树开花 tiě shù kāi huā
- 铁面无私 tiě miàn wú sī
- 铁骨铮铮 tiě gǔ zhēng zhēng
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