to tell the truth / honestly / in fact
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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.
to lay bare (actual facts, secrets etc) / to reveal
to be honest / to tell the truth / to be frank
to say sth for fun / to be kidding / to joke around
erhua variant of 說著玩|说着玩[]
sour grapes (set expr. based on Aesop) / lit. to say grapes are sour when you can't eat them
to act as a matchmaker
to fail to keep to one's word / to break a promise
to keep one's promise / to mean what one says
to do as promised / to be as good as one's word / to honor one's word / to mean what one says
promises must be kept
nothing serious / just hot air
liar
to get sb to understand / to persuade
lit. to discuss sb's merits and demerits (idiom) / to gossip
to sneer / to make cynical remarks / sarcastic talk
lit. family members speak frankly with one another, not courteously, as if they were from two different families (idiom) / fig. people don't need to be deferential when they ask a family member for help / people from the same family should stick together (and good friends likewise)
an expression of opinion / according to some
It's a long and intricate story, I hardly know where to start.
hard to say / can't be sure / difficult to speak about / unpleasant to say
needless to say / it goes without saying
to allow no explanation
goes without saying / obvious / self-evident
thus
novella
to talk drivel / to make irresponsible remarks
see 二話不說|二话不说[]
sth pertinent to say
there is no harm in saying what one thinks (idiom)
to speak without thinking / to blurt sth out
hypothesis
(idiom) to be all talk and no action / to preach what one does not practice
all talk and no action (idiom) / to preach what one does not practice / same as 光說不做|光说不做[]
both sides claim they're right (idiom)
to explain (the difference)
to say nothing of / not to mention / let alone
to plagiarize
materials safety data sheet (MSDS)
(idiom) you can't rely on a verbal agreement / just because sb says sth, doesn't mean it's true
to be all talk and no action
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27