拐 拐
弯 彎
抹 抹
角 角
- lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom)
- fig. to speak in a roundabout way
- to equivocate
- to beat about the bush
Info
- Wiktionary: 拐弯抹角
- MDBG: 拐弯抹角
- Examples with 拐弯抹角 on Tatoeba
- Percentile: 29 (higher is more common)
- Tags: chengyu