说项shuōxiàng唐代项斯被杨敬之看重,敬之赠诗有‘平生不解藏人善,到处逢人说项斯’的句子,后世指为人说好话,替人讲情。{put in a good word for sb.; intercede for sb. (During the Tang Dynasty, a man named Yang Jingzhi thought highly of Xiang Si and wrote him a poem which said, among other things: ‘I never hide the good side of a person, so I put in a good word for Xiang Si whenever I meet somebody.’)}