- graceful words, flowery speech (idiom); elegant but insincere words
- cheating wheedling
- dishonest rhetoric
Characters
- 花 (花): surname Hua
- 言 (言): words; speech; to say; to talk
- 巧 (巧): opportunely; coincidentally; as it happens; skillful; timely
- 语 (語): dialect; language; speech
Resources
- Wiktionary: 花言巧语
- MDBG: 花言巧语
- Examples with 花言巧语 on Tatoeba
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