打擦邊球

1. • to bend the rules
2. • 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
• 邊(biān)side
• 球(qiú)ball