死剩把口
sei2 zing6 baa2 hau2sǐ shèng bǎ kǒu
English
- describes a person who is very argumentative, not admitting defeat despite not having anything solid to back it up; to describe someone who is good for nothing but only knows how to talk
- to talk too much; One only knows how to talk but not to do other stuff; literally: all the body parts are dead, except for the mouth
粵語 — Cantonese
- 形容人好識講嘢,甚至唔係好識做其他嘢,只係識靠把口
Examples
講嘢好叻又有咩用啫,咪又係死剩把口?
Knowing how to talk well is useless if it's just empty words.
Sources: cc-canto, rime-cantonese, words.hk