汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 狗嘴裏吐不出象牙
gǒu zuǐ li tǔ bù chū xiàng yá
狗嘴裏吐不出象牙
(狗嘴里吐不出象牙)
no ivory comes from the mouth of a dog (idiom) / no good words are to be expected from a scoundrel
It is a metaphor that a bad person cannot speak good things
比喻坏人嘴里说不出好话来。
狗 gǒu 嘴 zuǐ 里 (裏) lǐ 吐 tǔ/tù 不 bù/bú 出 chū 象 xiàng 牙 yá
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

狗嘴里吐不出象牙。

A dog's mouth emits no ivory.

别在狗窝里找麝香。 （狗嘴里吐不出象牙。）

Look not for musk in a dog's kennel.

三月份，当我告诉我的女房东“母猪的耳朵作不成丝钱包”（中文：狗嘴里吐不出象牙）这句英文谚语时，她告诉我：“没什么是不可能的。”

Impossible is nothing,” said my Chinese host in March, when I told her the English proverb “you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear”.

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