旁敲侧击 pángqiāocèjī to beat around the bush Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 旁敲侧击 旁敲側擊 pángqiāocèjī to beat around the bush to make insinuations or take an indirect approach; to attack by innuendo rather than speaking directly Frequency Written text 0.399 per million Cross-References Synonym 侧击 cèjī Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
旁敲侧击 旁敲側擊 pángqiāocèjī to beat around the bush to make insinuations or take an indirect approach; to attack by innuendo rather than speaking directly Frequency Written text 0.399 per million Cross-References Synonym 侧击 cèjī Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)