话里套话
Traditional form:
話裡套話
Pinyin (reading):
huàlǐtàohuà
Definitions:
- to use seemingly innocent conversation topics as a pretext to glean information
- to touch upon other matters not central to the topic being discussed
Characters:
- 话 - talk, speech; language, dialect
- 里 - unit of distance equal to 0.5km; village; lane
- 套 - case, cover, envelope, wrapper
- 话 - talk, speech; language, dialect
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