拐彎抹角 [ㄍㄨㄞˇ ㄨㄢ ㄇㄛˋ ㄐㄧㄠˇ; guai3 wan1 mo4 jiao3] lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom) fig. to speak in a roundabout way to equivocate to beat about the bush ◄ ►