費fai3唇seon4舌sit3

simp费唇舌also written費脣舌

fai3 seon4 sit3fèi chún shé

English

to argue needlessly; to waste time explaining
to spend a lot of effort in attempt to convince someone

粵語 — Cantonese

講好多嘢去説服人

Examples

我哋費盡唇舌，都係想管理層收返呢個決定。
We spend a lot of effort in order to convince the management to withdraw this decision.

Sources: cc-cedict, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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