话里套话 in English hua4 li3 tao4 hua4 Meaning

Meanings

  • to use seemingly innocent conversation topics as a pretext to glean information
  • to touch upon other matters not central to the topic being discussed

Simplified Characters

话 里 套 话

Traditional Characters

話 裡 套 話

Pinyin

hua4 li3 tao4 hua4

Literal

Literal explanation, with pronunciation and meaning of each character.

话hua4dialect 里li3variant of 裡|里[li3] 套tao4to cover 话hua4dialect