- heart and mouth at variance (idiom); keeping one's real intentions to oneself
- saying one thing but meaning sth different
Characters
- 心 (心): heart; mind; intention; center; core; CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4]
- 口 (口): mouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc); classifier for bites or mouthfuls
- 不 (不): no; not so; (bound form) not; un-
- 一 (一): one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
Resources
- Wiktionary: 心口不一
- MDBG: 心口不一
- Examples with 心口不一 on Tatoeba
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