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绕弯子
rào​wān​zi

beat around the bush

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
绕弯子 (繞彎子) rào​wān​zi
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)