- lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom)
- fig. to speak in a roundabout way
- to equivocate
- to beat about the bush
Characters
- 拐 (拐): to turn (a corner etc); to kidnap; to swindle; to misappropriate; seven (used as a substitute for 七[qi1]); variant of 枴|拐[guai3]
- 弯 (彎): to bend; bent; a bend; a turn (in a road etc); CL:道[dao4]
- 抹 (抹): to wipe
- 角 (角): surname Jue
Resources
- Wiktionary: 拐弯抹角
- MDBG: 拐弯抹角
- Examples with 拐弯抹角 on Tatoeba
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