旁敲侧击
páng​qiāo​cè​jī

to beat around the bush

  • created sense approved 旁敲侧击/旁敲側擊 · páng​qiāo​cè​jī · to beat around the bush — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    旁敲侧击 / 旁敲側擊

    páng​qiāo​cè​jī

    to beat around the bush

    to make insinuations or take an indirect approach; to attack by innuendo rather than speaking directly

    páng​qiāo​cè​jí

    旁 (literal) → 旁 · páng · side 敲 (literal) → 敲 · qiāo · to knock 侧击 (literal) → 侧击/側擊 · cè​jī · to make oblique remarks

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

    created sense