指东说西
zhǐ​dōng​shuō​xī

to talk irrelevantly

  • created reference approved 指东说西/指東說西 → 东拉西扯/東拉西扯 (synonym) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    指东说西 / 指東說西 zhǐ​dōng​shuō​xī

    东拉西扯 / 東拉西扯 dōng​lā​xī​chě

    synonym

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 指东说西/指東說西 · zhǐ​dōng​shuō​xī · to talk irrelevantly — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    指东说西 / 指東說西

    zhǐ​dōng​shuō​xī

    to talk irrelevantly

    to talk about this and that without getting to the point; to dodge a subject by talking about unrelated matters

    指 (literal) → 指 · zhǐ · to point; to refer to 东 (literal) → 东/東 · dōng · [haphazard] 说 (literal) → 说/說 · shuō · to say 西 (literal) → 西 · xī · here and there

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense