擦边球
Traditional form:
擦邊球
Pinyin (reading):
cābiānqiú
Definitions:
- (table tennis) edge ball
- (fig.) actions that are technically legal but perhaps not respectable
Characters:
- 擦 - to clean, to erase, to polish; a brush
- 边 - border, edge, margin, side
- 球 - ball, globe, sphere; round
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