打擦边球 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 打擦邊球 dǎcābiānqiú ㄉㄚˇ ㄘㄚ ㄅㄧㄢ ㄑㄧㄡˊ to bend the rules to skirt around the issue Character by character 打(dǎ)a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings 擦(cā)rub 边(biān)side 球(qiú)ball A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0