妄言妄聽

unwarranted talk the listener can take or leave (idiom); sth not to be taken too seriously

Characters and words in 妄言妄聽

absurd / fantastic / presumptuous / rash

妄 = 亡 + 女 : Willy Walrus (w) wants to resurrect Bessie Coleman (女) who is buried in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4) so he lifts her tombstone (亡), but his dream is just absurd (妄).

妄

wàng

言

yán

lies / wild talk / to tell lies / to talk nonsense / fantasy (literature)

言

yán = y + an2

words / speech / to say / to talk

言 = 亠 + 二 + 口 : The horizontal lines look like sound waves that emerge from an opening: I'll resemble 言 by a megaphone.

言 = 亠 + 二 + 口 : Maud Younger rushes into anthill and in the kitchen she uses a megaphone to loudly announce that the world revolution will soon start. She also tells the people that she has berets for everyone so that everyone will be able to be in style for the revolution. However she doesn't tell that she prepared the berets in another way: to each beret, she attached a mandarin via two capacitors which forms a formidable antenna, so that after the revolution, she'll be able to transmit her speeches directly to the wearers' brains.

听

聽

tìng = ti + (e)ng4

(literary pronunciation, still advocated in Taiwan) to rule / to sentence / to allow

听

聽

ti̅ng = ti + (e)ng1

to listen to; to hear / to heed; to obey / a can (loanword from English "tin") / classifier for canned beverages / to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [ting4]) / (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [ting4])

听 = 口 + 斤 : Mother Teresa (ti) is listening to the sound that is made when a barbell (斤) squashes a mandarin (口) in front of the engine ((e)ng1).

Words with 妄言妄聽

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