消息灵通人士

well-informed source / person with inside information

well-informed source; person with inside information

to disappear / to vanish / to eliminate / to spend (time) / have to / need

news / information / CL:條|条[tiao2]

breath / news / interest (on an investment or loan) / to cease / to stop / to rest / Taiwan pr. [xi2]

quick / alert / efficacious / effective / to come true / spirit / departed soul / coffin

to be well-informed

fast and abundant (news) / clever / effective

to go through / to know well / (suffix) expert / to connect / to communicate / open / to clear / classifier for letters, telegrams, phone calls etc

classifier for an activity, taken in its entirety (tirade of abuse, stint of music playing, bout of drinking etc)

learned person / person of wide knowledge and sound scholarship

learned person; person of wide knowledge and sound scholarship

person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]

person / figure / public figure

member of the senior ministerial class (old) / scholar (old) / bachelor / honorific / soldier / noncommissioned officer / specialist worker