话里套话 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 話裡套話 huàlǐtàohuà ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄌㄧˇ ㄊㄠˋ ㄏㄨㄚˋ to use seemingly innocent conversation topics as a pretext to glean information to touch upon other matters not central to the topic being discussed Character by character 话(huà)dialect 里(lǐ)lining 套(tào)cover 话(huà)dialect A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0