滔滔不绝
tāo tāo bù jué
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 滔滔不絕
To talk on and on in a steady stream, like a river in flood. It can admire a fluent, well-informed speaker or complain about someone who will not stop talking.
Nói liên tục không dứt, lời tuôn ra như nước chảy. Có thể là lời khen người ăn nói lưu loát, hiểu biết rộng, cũng có thể là lời chê người nói mãi không chịu ngừng.
Register: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 062 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 绝/絕 = tuyệt; etymology of “thao thao bất tuyệt” = 滔滔不絕 · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “thao thao bất tuyệt” (thao-thao-bat-tuyet). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “滔滔不绝” mean?
To talk on and on in a steady stream, like a river in flood. It can admire a fluent, well-informed speaker or complain about someone who will not stop talking. Literally: surging on and on, never ceasing
Is “滔滔不绝” formal or informal?
滔滔不绝 is generally neutral.