绕弯子儿
rào​wān​zi​r

to beat about the bush

  • created sense approved 绕弯子儿/繞彎子兒 · rào​wān​zi​r · to beat about the bush — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    绕弯子儿 / 繞彎子兒

    rào​wān​zi​r

    to beat about the bush

    to speak vaguely around a topic without getting to the point; literally to go on a long detour

    绕, 弯子儿

    绕 (literal) → 绕/繞 · rào · to detour 弯子 (literal) → 弯子/彎子 · wān​zi · indirectness 儿 (bound) → 儿/兒 · r · [erhua suffix]

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

    created sense