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如簧之舌

rú huáng zhī shé

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Definitions

  1. 1. lit. a tongue like a reed (idiom)
  2. 2. fig. a glib tongue

Child Words of 如簧之舌

簧
huáng

metallic reed

如
rú

as

舌
shé

tongue

之
zhī

(possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的[de])