大隻講 (daai6 zek3 gong2 | ) : talk it up; exaggerate what one is saying; all talk no action

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大隻講

daai6 zek3 gong2

[1] talk it up; exaggerate what one is saying; all talk no action (which often goes hand-in-hand with talking sth up)
[2] a big mouth

Level: 3
This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. 粵

大隻講

This word has been viewed 2825 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by WANNABEAFREAK on 6th Feb 2007 17:51 and last edited on 22nd Mar 2009 05:42

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大 daai6 - big
隻 zek3 - classifier for animals & containers
講 gong2 - say; speak

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