支吾其词说话可疑或躲躲闪闪。英prevaricate;[查看详情]

闪烁其辞同“闪烁其词”。[查看详情]

旁敲侧击从旁边或侧面敲击。比喻说话、写文章不正面点破而是故意绕弯子隐晦曲折地说。例只不过不应该这样旁敲侧击应该要明亮亮的叫破了他。——清吴趼人《二十年目睹之怪现状》英by-stroke; (fig) attack by innuendo; make oblique references;[查看详情]

藏头露尾比喻说话、做事躲躲闪闪怕把真相全暴露出来。英gire a partial account of; tell part of the truth,but not all of it;[查看详情]

拖泥带水形容在泥泞道路上行走的状貌。比喻办事拖沓不爽快或语言不简明扼要。英messy; sloppy; slovenly; drag through mud and water;[查看详情]

言外之意含蓄而没有明白指明的意思。英implication; meaning underneath the words; read between the lines; what is actually meant;[查看详情]

指桑骂槐指着桑树数落槐树比喻表面上骂这个人实际上骂那个人。英point at the mulberry and abuse the locust——point at one but abuse another;[查看详情]

含沙射影据传说：水中有一种叫蜮的怪物看到人影就喷沙子，被喷者害病甚至死亡。后用来比喻耍阴谋暗中攻击陷害别人。例含沙射影的嘲讽。英attack by innuendo; make insinuations;[查看详情]

转弯抹角道路弯弯曲曲。例路是转弯抹角的但寻访的热情却没有半点消退。走弯弯曲曲的道路。例两人转弯抹角地来到一座柴门前。拐弯子；不直接。例有什么话照直说，别转弯抹角的。[查看详情]

拐弯抹角语言不便直说以比喻、暗示或正言反说等方式表达。例她先是说了一大堆客套话然后就拐弯抹角地说了起来我终于慢慢地听出她的来意了。英equivocate; beat about around the bush; speak indirectly; talk in a roundabout way;道路弯来弯去方向转变非常多用以形容随路线[查看详情]

半吞半吐话刚说出口又缩回去。例王教授把他们送到门口便站住半吞半吐地对他们说。——巴金《知识阶级》英partly conceal and partly confess; speak with reserve (restraint); to hum and haw;[查看详情]