话在嘴边

It's on the tip of my tongue.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 话 huà
  1. dialect
  2. language
  3. spoken words
  4. speech
  5. talk
  6. words
  7. conversation
  8. what sb said

classifiers: 種, 席, 句, 口, 番
=1 话 huà old variant of 话 huà
2 在 zài
  1. to exist; to be alive
  2. (of sb or sth) to be (located) at
  3. (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
3 嘴边 zuǐbiān side of the mouth; corner of the mouth