A dull tongue
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is ch ǐ Lu ò sh é D ù n, which means that old people lose their teeth and can't speak clearly. From a dream of Red Mansions.
The origin of Idioms
The second chapter of a dream of Red Mansions: "the old monk is deaf and faint, and his tongue is blunt. What he answered is not what he asked."
Analysis of Idioms
Antonym: glib
Idiom usage
Used as a predicate or attributive; used of the elderly.
Chinese PinYin : chǐ luò shé dùn
A dull tongue
be ready to realize one 's aspiration anywhere all over the country. zhì zài sì fāng
curb the violent and assist the weak. chú qiáng fú ruò
To shake one's clothes with a bullet. tán guān zhèn yī
see the head of the magic dragon but not its tail. shén lóng jiàn shǒu