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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
topolect / dialect
too wonderful for words
complaint
in a nutshell / to put it briefly
maxim
lit. fluently saying all one wants (idiom) / to preach freely on one's favorite topic / to hold forth to one's heart's content
hard to explain in a few words (idiom) / complicated and not easy to express succinctly
admonition / exhortation / dictum / the biblical Book of Proverbs
habitually silent (idiom) / reticent / uncommunicative
to assert / assertion
linguistics
to remain silent / to have nothing to say
(idiom) it goes without saying / it is self-evident
to put in a good word (for sb) / (literary) beautiful words / elegant expression
thousands of words (idiom) / having a lot of things to say / talking nonstop
true statement / incantation (translates Sanskrit: dharani 陀羅尼|陀罗尼)
to speak bluntly (idiom) / not to mince words
idle gossip / irrelevant nonsense / slanderous rumor
to speak rudely
(idiom) filthy speech / obscenities
relatively speaking / comparatively speaking
frightening words to scare people (idiom) / alarmist talk / reds under the beds
to put about (a story, plan, threat etc) / to let it be known (esp. of threat or malicious story) / to threaten
self-evident / needing no explanation (idiom)
in a way that justifies the use of the term / genuine / proper / in a way that conforms to logic / justifiable / appropriate / perfectly legitimate
a hidden trouble hard to mention (idiom) / sth too embarrassing to mention / an embarrassing illness
evil tongue / malicious talk
wise saying / words of wisdom
in simple terms / to put things simply / briefly
slip of the tongue / indiscretion / to blurt out a secret
common saying
in other words
in a few words (idiom) / expressed succinctly
preface / foreword / introduction / preamble / earlier remarks / earlier words / (literary) words of the ancient thinkers
to boast shamelessly / to talk big
implication
to talk nonsense (idiom) / frivolous talk
impossible to put into words / inexpressible
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