Beijing dialect > in a round-about way
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English Expression
  1. n.:  in a round-about way,  cast a compass,  fetch a compass,  go a compass,  take a compass,  go (all) round the houses,  go [make] one's rounds,  go around in circles,  circle,  beat about the bush
  2. v.:   take a stroll,  circumlocutory,   beat about the bush
Containing Phrases
roundtalk round [around]roundabout
circumbendibusfestoons of wordsringer
argue round and round (a subject)