转着弯儿
zhuǎn​zhe​wān​r

to beat about the bush

  • created sense approved 转着弯儿/轉著彎兒 · zhuǎn​zhe​wān​r · to beat about the bush — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    转着弯儿 / 轉著彎兒

    zhuǎn​zhe​wān​r

    to beat about the bush

    to speak in an indirect way or avoid being straightforward; to take a roundabout approach

    转 (literal) → 转/轉 · zhuǎn · to change 着 (bound) → 着/著 · zhe · [continuous] 弯儿 (literal) → 弯儿/彎兒 · wān​r · indirectness

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

    created sense