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話裡套話 (话里套话)

huà lǐ tào huà

Definition

  1. to use seemingly innocent conversation topics as a pretext to glean information
  2. to touch upon other matters not central to the topic being discussed

Character Decomposition

話
=
言
+
舌
裡
=
衤
+
里
套
=
大
+
镸

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