三句話不離本行

to talk shop all the time (idiom)

three / 3

variant of 勾[gou1]

sentence / clause / phrase / classifier for phrases or lines of verse

dialect / language / spoken words / speech / talk / words / conversation / what sb said / CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]

no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

surname Li

to leave / to part from / to be away from / (in giving distances) from / without (sth) / independent of / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing fire / ☲

root / stem / origin / source / this / the current / original / inherent / originally / classifier for books, periodicals, files etc

one's line / one's own profession

row / line / commercial firm / line of business / profession / to rank (first, second etc) among one's siblings (by age) / (in data tables) row / (Tw) column

to walk / to go / to travel / a visit / temporary / makeshift / current / in circulation / to do / to perform / capable / competent / effective / all right / OK! / will do / behavior / conduct / Taiwan pr. [xing4] for the behavior-conduct sense