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Meaning of 只言片语

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zhǐ yán piàn (Trad.: 只言片語)
just a word or two (idiom); a few isolated phrases
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Antonyms: 千言万语
Example Sentences
1
She had known nothing of the plan. Diego had never let on.
2
My efforts at conversation with the driver resulted only in grunts and indecipherable phrases.
3
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She lives near her mother and they are close, but whenever she was alone with her father, in a car driving somewhere, they had nothing to say to each other.
4
"They have memorized parts of texts that they can string together to prove the biblical basis for whatever it is they believe in, " he says, "but they ignore the vast majority of the text.
5
We surround the child with spoken English, encouraging them to use any words they pick up and ignoring all mistakes.