拐彎抹角

1. • lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom)
2. • fig. to speak in a roundabout way
3. • to equivocate
4. • to beat about the bush

Character by character

• 拐(guǎi)turn
• 彎(wān)bend
• 抹(mò)plaster
• 角(jiǎo)angle