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Korean idiom waste one’s breath

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입만 아프다

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  • 입만 아프다

English rendering waste one’s breath Literal translation: “only the mouth hurts”

Meaning 1

여러 번 말하여도 받아들이지 아니하여 말한 보람이 없다.

For repeated words not to be accepted, making speaking fruitless.

Dictionary example 1

밤낮 자기 자리는 자기가 치우자 치우자 그렇게 얘기했는데도 이 모양이니. 말해야 내 입만 아프니 그만두지.

I keep saying, day and night, that everyone should clean up their own place, but it is still like this. I only waste my breath, so I give up.

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“입만 아프다” — waste one’s breath: For repeated words not to be accepted, making speaking fruitless.
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