MDBG Mobile Chinese English Dictionary (iPhone, Android, Windows Phone)

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保留	bǎo liú	to keep / to retain / to have reservations (about sth) / to hold back (from saying sth) / to put aside for later
本来	běn lái	original / originally / at first / it goes without saying / of course
成语	chéng yǔ	Chinese set expression, typically of 4 characters, often alluding to a story or historical quotation; idiom; proverb; saying; adage / CL:条,本,句
俗话	sú huà	common saying / proverb
俗语	sú yǔ	common saying / proverb / colloquial speech
名言	míng yán	saying / famous remark
显而易见	xiǎn ér yì jiàn	clearly and easy to see (idiom); obviously / clearly / it goes without saying
不辞而别	bù cí ér bié	to leave without saying good-bye
可想而知	kě xiǎng ér zhī	(idiom) (it) goes without saying; can well be imagined
不用说	bù yòng shuō	needless to say; it goes without saying
畅所欲言	chàng suǒ yù yán	lit. fluently saying all one wants (idiom); to preach freely on one's favorite topic / to hold forth to one's heart's content
歇后语	xiē hòu yǔ	anapodoton (a saying in which the second part, uttered after a pause or totally left out, is the intended meaning of the allegory presented in the first part)
口头禅	kǒu tóu chán	Zen saying repeated as cant / (fig.) catchphrase; mantra; favorite expression; stock phrase
心口不一	xīn kǒu bù yī	heart and mouth at variance (idiom); keeping one's real intentions to oneself / saying one thing but meaning sth different
习语	xí yǔ	common saying / idiom
农谚	nóng yàn	farmers' saying
表里不一	biǎo lǐ bù yī	outside appearance and inner reality differ (idiom); not what it seems / saying one thing but meaning sth different
老话	lǎo huà	an old saying
口口声声	kǒu kou shēng shēng	to keep on saying (idiom); to repeat over and over again
言不由衷	yán bù yóu zhōng	to say sth without meaning it (idiom); to speak tongue in cheek / saying one thing but meaning sth different