a hundred mouths cannot explain it away(bǎi huì mò biàn)

a hundred mouths cannot explain it away

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ǎ Ihu ì m ò Bi à n, which means that even if there are many mouths, there is no excuse. It's the same as "no argument". From Xie He Zhengyan Qi.

Analysis of Idioms

There is no argument

Idiom usage

It's hard to argue. For example, Su Chen's comments, such as an old official's imprisonment, made Liu Bang unable to argue. The seventy first chapter of Xia Jingqu's the wild old man's exposed words in Qing Dynasty

The origin of Idioms

In Xie He Zhengyan Qi, written by Chen Liang of Song Dynasty, it is said that "apart from slandering things, one can't argue with a hundred beaks; when changing things, one can't expect them; when changing things, one can break three arms at the same time."

Chinese PinYin : bǎi huì mò biàn