转腰子 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 轉腰子 zhuànyāozi ㄓㄨㄢˋ ㄧㄠ ˙ㄗ to pace around nervously coll. to speak indirectly to beat about the bush Character by character 转(zhuàn)revolve 腰(yāo)the waist and lower back 子(zi)noun suffix, as in 椅子 yǐzi "chair" A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0