拖泥帶水 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 拖泥带水 tuōnídàishuǐ ㄊㄨㄛ ㄋㄧˊ ㄉㄞˋ ㄕㄨㄟˇ muddy and wet idiom (of speech, writing etc) slovenly sloppy (of actions) indecisive idiom Character by character 拖(tuō)drag 泥(ní)mud 帶(dài)band 水(shuǐ)surname Shui A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0