make promises easily but seldom keep them(qīng nuò guǎ xìn)

make promises easily but seldom keep them

As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Q ī ngnu ò Gu ǎ x ì n, which means to easily agree to other people's requirements and must rarely keep promise. From Laozi.

The origin of Idioms

Chapter 63 of Laozi: "if a man is light on promise, he will have little faith, and if he is easy, he will be difficult."

Idiom usage

Contraction; predicate, object, attribute; derogatory. My family is not trusty. (strange tales from a lonely studio by Pu Songling in Qing Dynasty)

Chinese PinYin : qīng nuò guǎ xìn