骨鲠在喉
    Pinyin: gǔ gěng zài hóu

    Usage: 主谓式;作宾语;与若、如连用

    Explanation: 鲠:鱼骨。鱼骨头卡在喉咙里。比喻心里有话没有说出来,非常难受

    Source: 清·袁枚《与金匮令书》:“仆明知成事不说,既往不咎,而无如闻不慊心事,如骨鲠在喉,必吐之而后快。”

    Example: 但近来作文,避忌已甚,有时如~,不得不吐,遂亦不免为人所憎。(《鲁迅书信集·致黎烈文》)

  • Thesaurus:  put the cart before the horse, act and think in one and the same way, act as one speaks, (literally) The mouth agrees with the mind.--to speak one's mind frankly, inconsiderateness, One's tongue runs before one's wit., honest and outspoken, have the heart in the right place, speak out without beating about the bush; come straight to the point, Outset, reverse the positions of the host and the guest, The sauce is better than the fish ., change/speak one''s mind, straight forward talk from an honest man, quick of tongue, I always fast heart, Quick and thoughtless in speech Heart Straight, name and reality consistent, Brainstorm, brainstorm, safe thoroughfare, what one sits and preaches,one must stand up to practice, blurt out, whim, whim, Chongkou Village
  • Antonym Group:  disloyalty, fire in one hand and water in the other, venality, carry fire in one hand and water in the other, like Lord Ye who claimed to be found of dragons but was mortally afraid of them, generosity, act wrongly out of personal considerations pervert the law, bend the law for personal gain, jobbery, Give him aninchand he'll take an ell., appetite cames with eating, Double heart, significance profound, Be trying to do or say Unspeakable, hold one's hand, Hang jemmy, Heart to heart, prevaricate, Avarice knows no bound greed is like a valley that can never be filled, Deep Culture profound argumentation, dramatize foil, Xuanyugushi, Hongyuntuoyue, one's eyes are bigger than one's belly, disloyalty, betray, break one's promise, batten on cab, jobbery, Duplicity, character Less diction, character Cannot but within, speak with one's tongue in one's cheek, Nutshell disbelief, Words, and faithlessness, act otherwise than one says, s feeling, make incessant,exorbitant demands, make endless exorbitant, moneygrubber the pores of one's mind--the source of one's intellectual capacity, be insatiably greedy, take bribes, practise graft skulduggery, the language fails to express the idea, overtly agree, but covertly oppose, use ambiguous language, anon house