拐弯抹角
Traditional form:
拐彎抹角
Pinyin (reading):
guǎiwānmòjiǎo
Definitions:
- lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom)
- fig. to speak in a roundabout way
- to equivocate
- to beat about the bush
Characters:
- 拐 - to kidnap, to abduct; to turn; crutch
- 弯 - bend, curve, turn
- 抹 - to apply; to erase, to smear, to wipe off
- 角 - angle, corner; horn, horn-shaped
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