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An idiom that means to say what others have said.

Pick up people's teeth [shí ré n yá hui]

[explanation] Pick up: pick up; Tooth wisdom: refers to what others have said. Metaphorically picking up a word or two from others as one's own words ... [from] Southern Song Liu Yiqing's "Shi Shuo Xin Yu Literature": "Yin Zhongjun said:' Kang Bo didn't get my teeth. ...