mutter and mumble(tūn tūn tǔ tǔ)

mutter and mumble

It's a Chinese idiom. Its pronunciation is t ū NT ū NT ǔ t ǔ, which means that you want to say it, but you don't have to say it happily. I'm afraid of speaking. From the story of heroes and heroines.

Citation explanation

I want to say it, but I don't want to say it. I'm afraid of speaking. Chapter 6 of Li Baojia's Officialdom: this young nephew was able to speak and refused to reply his uncle's words to Jiang Fu, which meant to avoid mischief. However, that kind of hesitation has been seen through by Jiang Fu. Lu Xun's letters to Cao Jinghua: as for the new works, it's hard now. There's no place to publish the better ones, but if you do it slowly, you will feel bored. Zhou Erfu's the morning of Shanghai, Part 1, Part 2: "at this point, Tao a Mao doesn't go on. Obviously, he has something in his stomach. He hesitates and doesn't say what he wants to say." "His name is Wen Chengshu, because he is afraid of pain and itching, and he does nothing without anger, so we call him" wentunshui. "

The origin of Idioms

The fifth chapter of Wenkang's biography of heroes and heroines in Qing Dynasty: "you are always hesitating and hesitating. What do you think of me?"

Analysis of Idioms

[near synonym] vague and evasive [antonym] outspoken and straight to the point

Idiom usage

It took her a long time to say that she had been beaten by the teacher.

Chinese PinYin : tūn tūn tǔ tǔ