to use seemingly innocent conversation topics as a pretext to glean information; to touch upon other matters not central to the topic being discussed
trad. 話裡套話
Also written 話裡套話【huà lǐ tào huà】
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3话
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dialect, language, spoken words, speech, talk, words, conversation, what sb said, CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]
- Pinyin
- huà
- Traditional
- 話
- Strokes
- 8
- Frequency
- 516 of 2500
里
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variant of 裡|里[li3]
- Pinyin
- lǐ
- Traditional
- 裏
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 108 of 2500
套
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to cover, to encase, cover, sheath, to overlap, to interleave, to model after, to copy, formula, harness, loop of rope, (fig.) to fish for, to obtain slyly, classifier for sets, collections, bend (of a river or mountain range, in place names), tau (Greek letter Ττ)
- Pinyin
- tào
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 5858 of 2500