行不顾言 — Chinese idiom
行不顾言
xíng bù gù yán
Traditional: 行不顧言
Meaning
- to say one thing and do another
Character by character
- 行xíngto go, to walk, to move; professional
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 顾gùto look back; to look at; to look after
- 言yánwords, speech; to speak, to say
Idioms sharing a character
- 一意孤行 yī yì gū xíng
- 一目十行 yī mù shí háng
- 一言一行 yī yán yī xíng
- 三思而行 sān sī ér xíng
- 上行下效 shàng xíng xià xiào
- 不虚此行 bù xū cǐ xíng
- 事怕行家 shì pà háng jiā
- 令行禁止 lìng xíng jìn zhǐ
- 倒行逆施 dào xíng nì shī
- 功完行满 gōng wán xíng mǎn
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