大放厥词

大放厥詞
dàfàngjuécí
idiom #35,092

Meanings

  1. 1 to spout off at length
  2. 2 to make grandiose or empty pronouncements

Examples

Tā zài huì shàng dàfàng juécí, lìng rén fǎngǎn.
He held forth at the meeting in a way people found off-putting.
Wǎngluò shàng zǒng yǒu rén dàfàng juécí.
There are always people spouting off online.

Tips

history
From 韩愈》: '大放厥词' — originally neutral/praiseful, describing Liu Zongyuan's free-flowing eloquence. In modern use the meaning has flipped to derogatory: empty talk or boasting.
mistakes
here is a classical possessive pronoun equivalent to ('his/its'), not the medical (to faint).

Stroke Order

fàng
jué