绕弯子 ràowānzi beat around the bush Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 绕弯子 (繞彎子) ràowānzi beat around the bush verb to speak vaguely or indirectly without getting to the main point detour to take a circuitous route or go on a long detour instead of a direct path Frequency Movie subtitles 0.480 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.148 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
绕弯子 (繞彎子) ràowānzi beat around the bush verb to speak vaguely or indirectly without getting to the main point detour to take a circuitous route or go on a long detour instead of a direct path Frequency Movie subtitles 0.480 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.148 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)