lấp sông lấp giếng ai lấp được miệng
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Dam the river, cap the well — but who dams a mouth — gossip is the one flood without an engineering solution.
Examples
Editorial example (VI sweep batch 040, illustrative)
Sources & notes
Discovered via Nam ngạn chích cẩm (Phạm Quang Sán, 1918; public domain, via vi.wikisource); retrieved 2026-08-01. Source: source ↗ Attested in Nam ngạn chích cẩm (Phạm Quang Sán, 1918). Definition is an original editorial synthesis, not copied from the source.
Common questions
What does “lấp sông lấp giếng ai lấp được miệng” mean?
Dam the river, cap the well — but who dams a mouth — gossip is the one flood without an engineering solution. Literally: fill river and well: who fills the mouth
Is “lấp sông lấp giếng ai lấp được miệng” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.