打边鼓 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 打邊鼓 dǎbiāngǔ ㄉㄚˇ ㄅㄧㄢ ㄍㄨˇ to echo what sb said to back sb up from the sidelines (in an argument) 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 边(biān)side 鼓(gǔ)drum A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0