拙嘴笨舌

lit. clumsy mouth and broken tongue (idiom); awkward speaker

Characters and words in 拙嘴笨舌

awkward / clumsy / dull / inelegant / (polite) my / Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]

= + : Julian Giant Squid (zhu) wants to use the emergency exit (出) in front of the observatory (o1), but it has to be operated using eight toy claws (扌) at the same time. Julian Giant Squid is just too clumsy (拙) to do so and so he is unable to open the emergency exit door.
mouth / beak / nozzle / spout (of teapot etc) / CL:張|张[zhang1],個|个[ge4]

= + : Zapatista Zebra (zu) is roaming the Eiffel Tower (ei3) to look for food. Because the floor is full of horns (觜), he is wearing safety boots (觜). With his lips (嘴) he is forming a long beak (嘴) to look for mandarins (口) between the horns.
stupid / foolish / silly / slow-witted / clumsy

= + : Beelzebub (b) is very stupid (笨): He wants to get rid of some roots (本) by flushing them through the toilets in the encampment's bathroom ((e)n4), but they get stuck easily and he has to push with a bamboo stick (⺮). It would be much easier to just use the trash can.
used in 喇舌[la3 ji1] to transcribe the Taiwanese word for "tongue"
tongue

= + : Sherlock Holmes squashed his tongue under a kilo just inside the elevator's kitchen! He tries to stem the kilo with a mandarin, but not very successfully.

Words with 拙嘴笨舌

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