Good words are worth a lot, but cost almost nothing.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

Good words are worth a lot, but cost almost nothing.

The price is expensive but it has value.

give [pay] tit for tat

I am having trouble keeping my English vocabulary in active use.

Please stop beating about the push and come straight out with it [and spit it out].

In doing that work, dictionaries were not much help [were of little assistance].

Thank you for your very generous compliments.

There's still plenty of room for improvement in dictionaries.

A little language goes a long way.

Even if malicious gossip is being circulated around someone, it doesn't necessarily mean that the value of that person will be diminished.

pick one's words carefully

The value of education cannot be overemphasized.

Emotion counts above vocabulary in verbal communication.

It's not beautiful things that are expensive, but expensive things that are beautiful.

A tongue‐twister is a phrase that is designed to be difficult to say.

Time is money, as the old saying goes.

Expensive skin creams don't work better than inexpensive ones.

The value of a good education cannot be measured in terms of money.

Try to use a more varied vocabulary.

I don't mean to dispute you, sir, but I'm afraid you are mistaken.

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

These coins are of little value.

Beauty without goodness is worth nothing.

paper money of little value issued on insufficient security

Translated literary works lose more or less in value.

It's a terrible [real] mouthful.

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

Don't be lazy [Don't be slipshod, Be conscientious] about looking up all the words you don't know in a dictionary.

An expensive watch is not necessarily a good one.