"食言" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 shí yán lit. to eat one's words / to break a promise / to go back on one's word / to renege / unsworn testimony
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 shí yán ér féi lit. to grow fat eating one's words (idiom) / fig. not to live up to one's promises
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